SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH Another Past Princeton President with a Complicated History on Race

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President’s page 2 Page 32 Inbox 5 From the Editor 7 On the campus 13 Inclusivity progress report Panel on Wilson legacy Bogle fellows Tuition, budget for 2016–17 Strategic planning: Regional studies STUDENT DISPATCH: Poker club SPORTS: No more sprint football Road to Rio: Donn Cabral ’12 life of the mind 29 Political parties Hopeful note on climate change Research briefs p rincetonians 43 Alumnae create web series Conference brings Jewish alumni back to campus Q&A: Michael Brown ’87, Page 46 discoverer of planets War story: Fuller Patterson ’38 class notes 51 Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica 32 Samuel Stanhope Smith 38 memorials 69 The birth of modern political charisma Was Princeton’s seventh president a racist classifieds 77 required a candidate with good looks, an or a progressive — and should it make a aura of power, and the right PR. difference now? that was then 80 By David A. Bell *91 By Nicholas Guyatt *03

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01paw0511_TOCrev1.indd 1 4/26/16 1:24 PM THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Reflecting on Jewish Life at Princeton ast month I had the pleasure of participating in “L’Chaim! To Life: Celebrating 100 Years of Jewish Life at Princeton.” The conference, organized by Princeton’s Office of Alumni Affairs,

Lwelcomed nearly 900 alumni and their guests back to DENISE APPLEWHITE campus to join faculty, staff, and students for three days of engaged conversation, learning, religious services, and shared meals — in short, to enjoy many of the activities that are constitutive of Jewish identity. What a long way we have come from the humble Shabbat service that started it all in 1915! That service, organized by Frank Glick ’16, a popular student and captain of the football team, and David Kempner ’17, marked the first time that Jewish students had gathered for worship on the Princeton campus. Five years later, the University recognized the first Jewish student organization, and Jewish worship became a formal part of campus life. Friday night services even attracted some non-Jewish students eager to get the weekend’s Chapel Talking with L’Chaim conference participants in Richardson requirement out of the way. Auditorium on April 15, 2016. Still, Jewish students faced many challenges in their efforts to fit in at Princeton. They found themselves subject hut used for meals during the Jewish festival of Sukkhot) to harsh admissions quotas, stigmatized as “unclubbable,” on the front lawn of Tiger Inn. Last month, seven of the and derided as “grinds” for their commitment to academic 11 eating clubs hosted Passover Seders. achievement as a means of upward mobility. Such Another important step toward full inclusion of the institutional and social challenges persisted well past the observant Jewish community at Princeton has been the middle of the 20th century, culminating in the infamous completion in 2015 of an eruv, or physical boundary, which “dirty bicker” of 1958, in which 23 sophomores, 15 of encompasses the campus and surrounding streets. The eruv whom were Jewish, were denied bids to eating clubs in is an important accommodation to the realities of modern spite of a commitment by the clubs to accept all applicants. life, allowing observant students, faculty, staff, and guests However, the years following World War II were already of the University to carry items within its boundaries on bringing important changes to higher education, as the the Sabbath. GI Bill opened the doors of colleges like Princeton to a great Princeton has grown tremendously in the past 100 years influx of qualified students, including Jewish students, from as a place where Jewish students and scholars can thrive, diverse backgrounds. With increasing Jewish enrollment but its old reputation persists in some corners. I learned came the push for more official recognition, and the Student that first-hand eight years ago, when I began identifying Hebrew Association was founded in 1947, becoming an as Jewish after discovering that my mother had hidden official chapter of Hillel in 1948. her own Jewish past throughout her lifetime. My research The presidencies of Robert Goheen ’40 *48 and into family history connected me to a network of cousins William Bowen *58 also brought significant changes to the whom I had never known. Some of their friends expressed University’s efforts to build a diverse and inclusive campus amazement that the provost of Princeton University — of community. Bowen made it a point to recruit Jewish all places! — could turn out to be Jewish. students to Princeton. In 1988, Harold Shapiro *64 became I smiled and told them about Harold Shapiro’s the University’s first Jewish president, and he continued presidency and the vibrant Jewish life on Princeton’s the progress his predecessors had begun. In 1993, Shapiro campus today — but also I admitted that Princeton had an opened the University’s Center for Jewish Life, for which exclusionary past. The L’Chaim conference took a similar fundraising had begun in the Bowen administration. approach, combining joyous celebration with honest Students like Marcus Lester Aaron ’20, who gathered remembrance of, to borrow the title of one alumni panel, the first minyan at Princeton in 1919, would be astonished “Jewish experiences across the generations.” That kind of by the variety and energy of the offerings at the center and candor — about exclusivity, about discrimination, about around campus today. On any given Friday evening, one the students, faculty, and staff who struggled bravely for can attend Shabbat services in the Conservative, Orthodox, equality, about what we have achieved and about problems and Reform traditions at the center. Both the center and that remain — will be essential as we continue Princeton’s Chabad of Princeton, located just off campus, offer lively efforts to build a community that talented people of all Shabbat dinners, and students sometimes flow between the groups and backgrounds can embrace as their own. two, eating their meal at one and showing up at the other for dessert. Jewish life is evident throughout Princeton’s campus, including on Prospect Street. I was both amused and delighted the first time that I saw a sukkah (a temporary

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Supporting Veterans The Wilson Legacy Decision We and many other veterans of Re the trustees’ action on Woodrow military service in the Princeton Wilson 1879’s legacy: I am delighted with community were heartened by the this decision. Let’s not confuse pursuing news that the University is elevating its present goals, and dealing with present efforts to increase the diversity of the problems, with accurately remembering undergraduate classes by recruiting the past and those who played a role in veterans (On the Campus, April 6). it. Of course we should acknowledge While other selective universities have, all of the aspects of historical figures since the attacks of 9/11, actively sought — but we should begin with a deeper to matriculate the best and brightest of acknowledgement that human cultures, the 1.5 million young enlisted veterans attitudes, habits, and so forth have of the “Long War” against terrorism, changed immensely over the centuries. Princeton has lagged. To support the We should resist the temptation to University’s new initiative, we are in impose our attitudes and values on the the planning stages of forming what past. This is a very ungenerous attitude might be called the Princeton Veterans toward those who have gone before, Association, or P-VETS. Our goals are to: as well as reflecting a very unattractive leverage the strengths, talents, and arrogance on our part. If we judge in this dedication of our members and friends way, we are likely to be judged negatively to honor and support fellow veterans; by our successors. Furthermore, allowing cultivate leaders for military present agendas of whatever kind to be and public service through support of the engines of historical revisionism is Princeton students in the Reserve Officer exactly the kind of manipulation that we Training programs and other officer- condemn in totalitarian regimes. commissioning programs; Jess Hungate *72 broaden the diversity of Princeton North York, Ontario, Canada undergraduate and graduate classes through the matriculation of veterans; and I’m disappointed by the choice to promote educational programs not officially change the name of that increase understanding of military Wilson College. While I understand, call it Trotter College, and I invite others service and national security. unhappily, the decision to keep Wilson’s to join me in this bit of disobedience. Other universities have succeeded in association with the School of Public and William Monroe Trotter was an African this effort. With Princeton’s commitment International Affairs, I see neither the American newspaper publisher who to “the nation’s service,” we can, too. value nor the rationale for also having a challenged Wilson publicly on his racist Drew Davis ’70 residential college shoulder the legacy of views and policies. Annapolis, Md. a segregationist. The extraordinary thing about Jim Marshall ’72 I, for one, will no longer refer to language is that it is malleable. You Macon, Ga. Wilson College by that name. I plan to don’t need permission to change it — all you need is agreement from a critical paw tracks mass. Draw a line through “Wilson” when you see it and replace it with A ’SOONS REUNION: Alumni of “Trotter.” Change how you speak, and the Nassoons returned to campus you will keep the conversation alive. in April to celebrate the 75th Every time anyone asks, you have the anniversary of the group that gave birth to a cappella at Princeton. We chance to bring Wilson’s racism out of spoke with several members about that obfuscating murk of “legacy” and their favorite memories. Listen to into the light of racial justice. Change the The Nassoons’ 75th their stories — and a few songs — at anniversary on language you use, and soon enough you

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05,09paw0511_InboxeditorREV2.indd 5 4/26/16 1:26 PM trustees or administration decide. Just with great interest. One question not stop using “Wilson.” addressed in gender literature, and An editorially independent magazine by Mari Badger ’83 which the article does not address either, alumni for alumni since 1900 Cambridge, Mass. is what makes a person male or female. May 11, 2016 Volume 116, Number 12 In simple terms, what can a person point Editor As a freshman in 1969 I met with to and say, “I have this and not that, so Marilyn H. Marks *86 Professor Arthur S. Link, the official I am male” or “I have that and not this, Managing Editor W. Raymond Ollwerther ’71 keeper of Woodrow Wilson’s papers, so I am female”? I have read repeatedly Digital Editor, Sports Editor and told him I had decided in junior high that the basis is self-identification, but Brett Tomlinson Class Notes Editor school to attend Princeton after reading I have not seen any reason for a person to Fran Hulette Professor Link’s book, Wilson: The self-identify one way or another. Senior Writer Road to the White House. Professor Link One transgendered person told me Mark F. Bernstein ’83 Writer, Memorials Editor graciously admitted me to his upper- that this self-identification is arbitrary. Allie Wenner class American history course. Professor My son’s response was that it is not Art Director Link never hid from his students that arbitrary, but he could not explain it to Marianne Nelson President Wilson was a racist who me. The article also speaks of Ladin’s Publisher resegregated the federal workforce. intense feelings about this. But one Nancy S. MacMillan p’97 I recently learned that President cannot build a society on subjective Advertising Director Wilson created the National Park Service feelings, no matter how deeply or Colleen Finnegan in 1916. To everyone who has visited a sincerely or intensely held. Student Interns national park, I ask: What is Wilson’s A dictionary provides clear, simple, Katharine Boyer ’16; Juliette Hackett ’17; most lasting legacy — his racism as a objective definitions. “Female” is “of Megan Laubach ’18; Martin D. Page ’16; Will Plunkett ’16; Christopher Ratsimbazafy- Virginian born in 1856, or the National the type that bears young” and “male” Da Silva ’19; Nina Sheridan ’19 Park Service he created as a key is “of the type that begets young.” These Proofreader Progressive of the early 20th century? definitions provide a reality check that Joseph Bakes Frederick A. Larson ’73 gender theorists lack. Until they can Webmaster Jamestown, N.Y. River Graphics define their basic terms, they literally do not know what they are talking about. PAW Board Sandra Sobieraj Westfall ’89, Chair JOY LADIN *00’S JOURNEY People have called me hateful for Carmen Drahl *07, Vice Chair asking these questions; they have called Joel Achenbach ’82 me a bigot for using logic; they have James Blue ’91 *Robert K. Durkee ’69 called me an extremist for quoting Daniel R. Fuchs ’91 the dictionary. Transgendered people Michael Graziano ’89 *96 *Sara M. Judge ’82 would be better served if their advocates *Maria Carreras Kourepenos ’85 answered basic questions, rather than *Margaret Moore Miller ’80 abusing those who ask them. Charles Swift ’88 *ex officio John F. Fay *85 Allie Weiss ’13 Mary Esther, Fla. 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I understand that Princeton’s new FROM THE EDITOR informal motto, “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of The Accidental History Issue humanity,” means to suggest a broader From time to time, PAW editors have an idea for a theme, and then go about assigning mandate than its more euphonic articles that fit the idea. In the case of this issue, however, the stories came first. Both predecessor. To me, it does the opposite. of our feature articles are historical; both have implications for issues that are very Every year in the United States alone, much in the public eye. more than 9 billion farm animals The first, by Princeton history professor David A. Bell *91, concerns politics are confined to unnatural and often and charisma. Who comes to mind when you think of political charisma today? A abusive environments before slaughter, bombastic businessman? A balding New England socialist? Perhaps a Princeton alum millions of adoptable dogs and cats who mastered the art of soaring rhetoric as a college debater and adds flourish with a are “euthanized,” and hundreds of pair of black ostrich-skin “argument boots”? thousands of animals are subjected to For Bell, the story of modern political charisma begins with Pasquale Paoli, who painful, disfiguring, and ultimately fatal ruled Corsica in the middle of the 18th century and was chronicled by an enamored experiments in laboratories — all in the James Boswell. Boswell’s portrait, Bell writes, was of “a paragon of nature who led by service of humanity. For those of us virtue of his extraordinary personal gifts, and who bound his followers to him through who focus our service efforts on helping sheer, intense emotion.” Bell concludes that those qualities — and the right chronicler nonhuman animals, Princeton’s new — are as important today as they were then. motto is myopic. Our cover story, by historian Nicholas Guyatt *03, tells the story of Samuel Bill Davis ’97 Stanhope Smith 1769, Princeton’s seventh president. Guyatt focuses on his role as Austin, Texas a theorist of race. Before walking in to occupy President Eisgruber ’83’s office in Nassau Hall office last fall, members of the Black Justice League demanded a role SUPPORT FOR SPRINT FOOTBALL in naming campus buildings by pointing to Stanhope Hall, across the green. Smith, Re the decision to discontinue sprint for whom the building was named, opposed slavery but favored segregation; he felt football (story, page 27): Princeton African Americans could be “improved” to resemble whites. Is he best viewed as a ought to give the team what it needs to progressive for his time — or a racist for ours? — Marilyn H. Marks *86 succeed. What a fantastic opportunity for the University to reverse course and to demonstrate that young persons who fight on through extraordinary adversity Opening deserve our support. Joe Salerno ’84 Doors West Windsor, N.J.

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05,09paw0511_InboxeditorREV2.indd 9 4/26/16 1:27 PM Alumni volunteers from across the classes and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni have been hard at work for months (and sometimes years) to make Reunions 2016 85,000 one of the most memorable ever. So, come back to Old Nassau the weekend of May 26-29 to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones; dance under the stars; attend the Alumni Faculty Forums; and, of course, march in the one and only P-rade.

We can’t wait to see you!

Charles Ganoe ’51 Charlie Ganoe is quite unassuming about his undergraduate With best wishes, Reunion Chair, days. He recalls, “I really enjoyed Princeton, but I wasn’t 65th Reunion anything special. I wasn’t an athlete. I wasn’t a scholar.” As a volunteer for Princeton and his class, however, he is something very special. Associate Vice President for Alumni Affairs

It all began in 1954, when he accepted the role as Class http://alumni.princeton.edu/calendar/ Agent, and grew from there until he has now held all six offi ces for the Class of 1951, including Treasurer, Vice President, and President. He has been Class Secretary since 2011 and is winding up his second stint as Reunions Chair. Graduate Alumni His enthusiasm for Princeton predates his days as an Join the APGA and fellow Tigers at Reunions 2016: Perfectly Proportioned to Party! undergraduate. He went to his fi rst Princeton football game when he was eight years old, continued to visit Palmer Stadium 2016 Highlights: c. 2016 throughout his school days, and has been a football and • APGA Headquarters in Cuyler Courtyard for 3rd year • Three nights of entertainment basketball season ticket holder for decades. He notes that • Family-friendly courtyard with bounce house, infl atable slide, the football team’s ranking of #8 in the country his senior year face painting and more fanned his interest, and he shares with delight that he has • Academic programming specifi c to the Humanities “attended every Princeton-Penn game but one since 1940.” Thursday, 5/26 • Dinner at the Boathouse with current graduate students In addition to providing Charlie a lifelong connection to who recently took their Generals exams Princeton athletics, his undergraduate experience also • Graduate student and alumni DJ showcase shaped his lifelong interests in fi nance and foreign travel. An Economics major who went on to Wharton for his MBA, Friday, 5/27 Charlie spent the summer after his junior year traveling around • Alumni panels on world heritage and global tourism • Service project: Meal packaging for the Kids Against Hunger Coalition Europe. No coincidence, then, that he ultimately spent much • Individual departmental receptions of his business career in international banking in Philadelphia • Welcome Dinner with fellow graduate alumni c. 1951 and New York. He still travels around the world; recent visits • Late night party with local favorite Brian Kirk and the Jirks include North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. Saturday, 5/28 • Breakfast reception and photo exhibit in McCormick Hall Come May 26 through 29, Charlie, who now lives in Princeton, • Festive lunch including family fun for all ages will be shepherding the Class of ’51 to another successful • The One and Only P-rade Reunion. How does he account for the often record-breaking • Dinner celebration with graduate alumni and graduate students number of classmates who return again and again? “We have • Late night dancing with show-stopping band Ariel To learn the many ways to exceptional programming,” Charlie explains. He also ruefully The APGA has partnered with the Class of 1991 along with several other Reunions classes on stay connected to Princeton, Help us help others: acknowledges that being Reunions chair can be “a full-time a project to package meals for the Kids Against Hunger Coalition. Find the registration link on the APGA Reunions contact the Offi ce of Alumni job.” The social contact, developing close friendships with 2016 website. Affairs at 609-258-1900 or his classmates and also with many others in the University www.alumni.princeton.edu community – they make it all worthwhile. Save money and register online for Reunions 2016 by May 15: http://alumni.princeton.edu/apga/reunions/2016/ On-site registration also available.

Make APGA Headquarters your home during Reunions weekend and register today! Alumni volunteers from across the classes and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni have been hard at work for months (and sometimes years) to make Reunions 2016 85,000 one of the most memorable ever. So, come back to Old Nassau the weekend of May 26-29 to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones; dance under the stars; attend the Alumni Faculty Forums; and, of course, march in the one and only P-rade.

We can’t wait to see you!

Make APGA Headquarters your home during Reunions weekend and register today! It’s Never an Off-Year! Information for Satellite Registration & Wristbanding

Whether it’s your 7th or 57th, your 14th or 41st, you’re invited to gather with your fellow Princetonians at the Best Old Place of All. Here’s what you need to know if you’re a “satellite” of a major.

Who can get a wristband and how much does it cost?

For Satellite Classes of the 10th – 65th Reunions (1952 - 2009), • Wristbands are FREE for you and one adult guest (21+) • Your children or grandchildren, along with their respective spouse/partner, may also be wristbanded for free.

For Satellite Classes of the 5th Reunion (2010 - 2015), • If you did not pre-register by May 1, payment at the door is $100 (payable to the 5th Reunion class by credit card only). • You may register one adult guest for $100 at the door by credit card.

Unrelated minor guests and additional adult guests are not eligible for a wristband, but they are welcome to attend daytime festivities with you that are located outside of Headquarters Sites – such as the P-rade, fireworks, academic programs, sporting events and more.

Where are wristbands available?

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LaTanya Buck will become Princeton’s first dean for diversity and inclusion in August.

a lot of work to do,” Minter said. “I think we can be at the forefront of what a good, healthy, and diverse campus culture looks like.” Following is the status of additional recommendations by the task force: Consider adding a course requirement for diversity and culture as part of the University’s distribution requirements. A task force on general education, formed as part of the University’s strategic-planning process, expects to make preliminary recommendations to the trustees in June, said Dean of the College Jill Dolan. Provide more opportunities for student dialogue about diversity and inclusion. This year, conversations have taken place in the residential colleges, through the Office of Religious An Inclusive Climate Life, and over dinner between students and professors. Many initiatives are underway, Revise freshman orientation. but officials say more needs to be done Changes in the fall will include mandatory participation in Outdoor year after a University task force renovated this summer, and the center Action or Community Action, promoting offered an ambitious set of will host a new diversity peer-educators a “sense of community values, ethics, A proposals to make the campus program that is scheduled to begin in and diversity and cultural difference,” more inclusive, Princeton officials say the fall. Dolan said. substantial progress has been made but The task force was formed after about Expand curricular offerings related that much remains to be done. 150 students attended a December 2014 to diversity and identity. Through the Perhaps the most visible step was meeting of the Council of the Princeton 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation the University’s announcement last University Community to press for action in Undergraduate Education, faculty month of the hiring of its first dean for on diversity-related issues. The task members will teach five new courses diversity and inclusion. LaTanya Buck, force was charged with improving the next year on topics that include how the founding director of the Center for student experience, enhancing academic urban diversity has been viewed in the Diversity and Inclusion at Washington offerings, and changing how students, Americas and an examination of the University in St. Louis, will begin her faculty, and staff members address bias Trenton riots of 1968, focusing on the new position in August. Buck said and discrimination. fatal shooting of a black college student she plans to create a team of student Michele Minter, vice provost for by a white police officer. In addition, representatives to ensure that she will be institutional equity and diversity, said six postdocs will pursue research and “keeping a pulse on campus and learning she believes that Princeton has acted on teach courses in the areas of comparative about the needs, experiences, and all the recommendations that could be cultures, race, ethnicity, gender and expectations of students.” accomplished in a year’s time. “We are sexuality, and global health next year. One of Buck’s first responsibilities making good progress, but we still have Increase learning opportunities for will be to decide whether to strengthen faculty and instructors. The McGraw the focus of the Carl A. Fields Center for Center for Teaching and Learning began Equality and Cultural Understanding as a “I think we can be at offering workshops on inclusive teaching “welcoming home base” for students of the forefront of what strategies this semester; the first drew color, as the task force suggested. In the a good, healthy, and more than 30 professors and focused past year the University has expanded diverse campus culture on how different types of high school the center’s hours and assigned rooms looks like.” learning experiences may affect the for use by four student cultural-affinity — Michele Minter, vice provost for preparation of students for Princeton

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have been added to orientation for graduate-student preceptors. Expand support for University centers and offices that serve “identity- based” groups on campus. Funding for a new program coordinator at the Women’s Center, two new positions at the Fields Center, and two new diversity- focused staff positions at the Graduate School has been approved. In addition to issues raised by the task force, other initiatives are underway. Minter said she has seen greater interest by the faculty in areas relating to diversity and inclusion. At least seven departments have requested training or asked for A. Scott Berg ’71 assistance in putting together committees discusses the Wilson record as Ashleigh to look at their departmental climate. Lawrence-Sanders, Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice a Rutgers Ph.D. is organizing training to provide a senior candidate, listens. faculty member in each department with Context, Impact Explored the data and authority to play a larger role in faculty searches and attract a Scholars Take a Deeper Look at more diverse applicant pool. A working group that is reviewing Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy on Race proposals for additional interest-based Often left out of the discussion of Woodrow Wilson 1879’s policies on “living-learning” communities in the race as president of the United States is the fact that there were residential colleges, including a request many more people urging Wilson to keep the country segregated than to stop segregation, said Wilson biographer A. Scott Berg ’71, one by student activists for race-based of four scholars who spoke on an April 9 panel about Wilson’s legacy. affinity housing, hopes to makes its Additionally, before he took office, many Southern congressmen told recommendations by June, Dolan said. Wilson he would not get any bills passed if he allowed the integration of The University also announced in April government offices to continue, Berg said. that the trustees had approved the creation “I don’t think he was a hater,” said Berg, who went on to say, “Yes, he of a “pipeline” program to encourage was a racist.” Berg, a University trustee and a member of the Wilson students from underrepresented groups Legacy Review Committee, said that “during his presidency, Wilson kept to pursue doctoral degrees and careers the race conversation going. ... I think Wilson knew when he got into in academia. Minter said that while the office that race was going to have to be dealt with, and I think he wanted program is still in its planning stages, more than anything else for it not to be on his watch.” the University hopes to bring talented Other scholars on the panel, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, included Chad Williams *04, associate professor and chair of undergraduates, mainly from other the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis universities, to Princeton during the University; Eric Yellin *07, an associate professor of history and summer for research, mentoring, and American studies at the University of Richmond; and Ashleigh Lawrence- insights into graduate school. The Sanders, a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Rutgers University hopes to begin the program University. The event took place four days after the announcement that during the summer of 2017. the trustees had decided to retain Wilson’s name on Princeton’s public- “While there’s been some modest affairs school and on one of its residential colleges. improvement in faculty diversity, it’s not Yellin, who will teach a course at Princeton in the fall called enough, and it won’t be enough until “Woodrow Wilson’s America,” said that when Wilson campaigned as a we do something about the pipeline,” progressive candidate, he said he had “the best of hopes for everyone — including African Americans.” After he assumed office, Yellin said, said Brent Henry ’69, vice chair of the Wilson justified the segregationist actions of his administration by University’s trustees. “If this lives up promoting the idea that segregation was in the best interest of all to our hopes, we could really become Americans because friction between the races could cause issues in a leader in trying to figure out how to the workplace. improve that pipeline.” By A.W. “That’s a progressive, bureaucratic justification that we see again More information on the “Many Voices, and again,” Yellin said. The result, he said, was “an erasure of 30 years One Future” efforts can be found at of African Americans serving the nation at all levels of the federal

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Mathematics professor Maria Chudnovsky *03 (above, left), a MacArthur “genius award” recipient, was featured in a TV commercial for TurboTax. Called in to help a woman who wonders if she can deduct her student-loan interest on her tax return, the professor (identified by name and as a “super-smart mathematician”) takes the woman’s smartphone and asks the TurboTax app for the answer. The app replies, “In her case, yes; the amount goes right here.” Chudnovsky repeats the advice to the woman, then smiles as the tagline comes up: “It doesn’t take a genius to do your taxes.” Asked about campus reaction to the ad, Chudnovsky said that “people are a bit surprised and mildly amused.” She was invited to audition for a movie, “but they found someone who can act instead,” she said.

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and width, but no height. You could do a thesis on that.” I’m confused. “Flatland?” “You could figure out how general relativity would work in a universe with only two spatial dimensions, plus the dimension of time.” He draws a spacetime diagram to make things clearer. The vertical dimension in this diagram is the dimension of time. The top of the page is the future, and the bottom is the past. Every object in our universe follows a “world line” in this diagram, moving left and right through the spatial dimensions but also traveling inexorably upward, toward the future. That meeting in Peyton Hall is the beginning of our journey. My world line and Professor Gott’s run close and parallel for the next six months as I struggle with the mathematics of relativity. I finally derive a solution for Flatland and rush to Dr. Gott’s office. He smiles and gives me the highest compliment that one theorist can give another: “This solution is non-trivial!” The theory of relativity, we discover, Professor J. would work very differently in Flatland Richard Gott III *73 than it does in our universe. There demonstrates how we would be no gravitational attraction might travel back in time in this 1991 photo. between massive objects, and yet those objects still would alter the geometry ESSAY of the spacetime around them. It’s an interesting result. Dr. Gott and I co- Learning to Travel Through Time author a research paper that’s published With My Astrophysics Professor in a somewhat esoteric journal called General Relativity and Gravitation. By Mark Alpert ’82 After I graduate from Princeton, though, I stop studying astrophysics. I Mark Alpert ’82 is a Professor Gott is a native of fall in love with poetry and get a master’s contributing editor at Louisville, Ky. He studied math and degree in creative writing. Eventually Scientific American physics at Harvard before getting his I become a journalist. My world line and an author of science Ph.D. in astrophysics at Princeton. diverges from Professor Gott’s. thrillers. His latest novel He has a strong Kentucky drawl and a But then something remarkable is The Orion Plan. special enthusiasm for Albert Einstein’s happens. My Princeton education general theory of relativity, the equations isn’t over yet. Our world lines come For 35 years I’ve been traveling through that link space and time and gravity. He back together. time with the Princeton professor who leans forward in his chair and fervently It’s 1998. Oddly enough, I’m now an showed that time travel is possible. talks about curvature tensors and editor at Scientific American. My wife It’s 1981. I’m a senior in the astrophysics spacetime metrics. And as I listen to him, and I go to the American Museum of department, choosing a topic for my I start to feel the same excitement. Natural History in New York City to undergraduate thesis. I’m in the Peyton He finds a recent issue of Scientific hear a lecture by Dr. Gott. He’s made an Hall office of J. Richard Gott III *73, an American and opens the magazine. amazing discovery: Under extraordinary astrophysicist who’s building a reputation “Here’s something interesting. It’s about circumstances, the theory of relativity as one of the best and quirkiest teachers Flatland, a hypothetical universe with allows for time travel to the past. The

at Princeton. I’m 20 years old, he’s 34. only two spatial dimensions. It has length circumstances involve cosmic strings, Lemonick/The Collection/Getty LIFE Images Don Images; Pollard D. Michael top: From

20 Princeton alumni weekly May 11, 2016 On the Campus infinitely long strands of high-density Researchers have of characters. “Well, I recognize which material that may have been created discovered other character is me,” he says. “And I know in the first moments of our universe’s methods of time travel which one is you. So who should play us history. If cosmic strings really exist — in the movie?” astronomers haven’t observed any yet allowed by Einstein’s He has a soft spot for science-fiction — Professor Gott believes they could be equations, including movies, especially any film that features used to build a time machine. scenarios involving time travel. After we go over the casting With his usual enthusiasm, he wormholes — shortcuts choices, Dr. Gott corrects several explains to the audience in the lecture through spacetime, mistakes I made in the first draft of the hall how the time machine would work. like the one shown in novel. In one scene, I put the wrong First, you’d have to find two cosmic the movie Interstellar — constellations in the summer sky. That strings that are zooming past each and exotic vacuum would’ve been a humiliating error for a other at nearly the speed of light. Then states. “I’m not talking former astrophysics major. you’d jump into a spaceship and steer about a Hoover It’s 2015. I’m in Professor Gott’s office around the pair of strings in a tight circle. again, but now my 16-year-old son, Because the strings radically change the vacuum,” Gott says. Tommy, is there too. He’s thinking about geometry of the surrounding spacetime, “I’m talking about a applying to Princeton and wants to meet the rocket would return to your starting negative-energy my favorite teacher. point at a time before you embarked on quantum vacuum!” Dr. Gott is generous with his time. He the journey. Upon your arrival, you could gives Tommy a tour of the astrophysics shake hands with your slightly younger museum. After the lecture, several department. He tells stories about the self and reassure him or her that the trip people rush toward the stage to talk Intel Science Talent Search, the contest will be successful. Your world line has to Professor Gott. My wife pushes me for which he served as a judge for many twisted into a closed curve, allowing you forward. “Go on, say hello to him.” years. (He was a contestant when he was to loop back to an event in your past. I shake my head. “No, he won’t in high school, winning second place But wait, Dr. Gott tells the audience, remember me.” But I go to the stage in 1965.) Then he switches gears and there’s more! Researchers have anyway and say hello. talks about space exploration and the discovered other methods of time He smiles. “Of course, I remember War of the Worlds broadcast, the famous travel allowed by Einstein’s equations, you! That research we did together? Orson Welles radio play that terrified the including scenarios involving wormholes On Flatland? That led to my work on country in 1938 by describing a Martian — shortcuts through spacetime, like cosmic strings.” invasion of New Jersey. He says he the one shown in the movie Interstellar As it turns out, the spacetime around recently celebrated the anniversary of — and exotic vacuum states. “I’m not a cosmic string is very similar to the the broadcast by visiting Grover’s Mill, talking about a Hoover vacuum,” Gott distorted geometry around massive the site of the fictional Martian landing. says passionately in his characteristic objects in Flatland. When Dr. Gott tells It’s just a few miles from Princeton. drawl. “I’m talking about a negative- me this, I sense a strange tug in my own He keeps us enthralled for almost two energy quantum vacuum!” Even world line. I’m looping across time. hours. After we leave Peyton Hall, Tommy stranger, it’s possible that our universe Einstein, in one of his last letters: is thoroughly intimidated. “If you have began as a closed time loop, a vacuum “The distinction between past, present to be that smart to get into Princeton, state that whirled back and forth in and future is only an illusion.” I don’t have a chance,” he says. time and simultaneously sent a branch It’s 2007. I’m having lunch with I reassure him by pointing out that of spacetime into the future, where it Professor Gott at a Chinese restaurant very few people in the world are as smart became our modern-day cosmos. near Princeton. We’ve stayed in touch as Professor Gott. This cosmological model is appealing over the past decade; we follow each It’s 2016. In one of the most important to physicists and philosophers because other’s work and occasionally discuss discoveries of the century, scientists it cleverly answers an age-old question: the latest science news. The relationship detect gravitational waves for the first What started the universe? If our cosmos is incredibly rewarding. I feel as if I’ve time, providing the best evidence yet for branched off from a closed time loop, enrolled in an open-ended astrophysics the theory of relativity. And at the end of then the universe has no beginning, course that has no final exam but keeps the spring semester, Dr. Gott will retire because every moment in time is giving me credits. from the Princeton faculty. I’m 55 years preceded by an earlier moment. There’s I arranged this lunch so we can old, he’s 69. no need to imagine a cosmic birth that discuss a manuscript I’ve written. It’s my I’m glad we stayed in touch. I tell all created everything out of nothing, first novel, Final Theory, a thriller about my friends and fellow alumni that they because it didn’t happen. Instead, the Einstein and apocalyptic physics. Dr. should look up their former professors. universe created itself. Gott has scribbled comments on dozens It’s like another kind of time travel. These ideas about time travel and of Post-It notes. He points at the novel, And you don’t even need any cosmic cosmology dazzle the audience at the which has several physicists in its cast strings. paw.princeton.edu May 11, 2016 Princeton alumni weekly 21 On the Campus

in short STUDENTS VOTED in April on a pair of referenda: to create a task force Finally. to consider changes to disciplinary action for Honor Code violations, Acorrectdiagnosis— and to call on the University to divest from companies “that draw andsomehope. profit from incarceration, drug control, and immigrant-deportation Real recovery starts with the right diagnosis. policies.” Both referenda failed The Pavilion is research-backed, with to meet a requirement, under a proven history of uncovering the true reasons why people struggle with a cycle procedures adopted this year of treatment failures. by the Undergraduate Student Let us help you today. Call 855.707.0517. Government, that at least one-third of the student body cast votes for the results to be considered. The University is temporarily housing the Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s GENIZA COLLECTION while the seminary, based in New York City, rebuilds its library. The collection contains more than 40,000 documents and TOP RANKED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL – U.S. News and World Report fragments of religious texts that scholars have used to study the Boston, Mass. www.mcleanpavilion.org lives and culture of Jews in Egypt from the eighth to the 19th century. It will be accessible for research purposes until fall 2019, when it will be returned to the seminary. Reunions AA Haven BAINBRIDGE HOUSE, located on Nassau Street next to the Garden Alumni and their families Theatre, is being renovated are welcome at and restored by the University. Constructed in 1766 and home to the Open AA Meeting Princeton Historical Society from 1967 until last year, the building will Frist Campus Center, become an information center for Multipurpose Room A the University Art Museum and the Friday & Saturday Lewis Center for the Arts. May 27 & 28, 5 pm - 6:30 pm In Memoriam JOHN C. MOORE, AA Haven mathematics Feel free to drop by the professor AA Haven for fellowship emeritus who from 7 pm - Midnight specialized Frist Campus Center, in algebraic Class of 1952 Room. topology, died Jan. 1 in Rochester, N.Y. He was 92. Moore published his most-cited paper, which was about Hopf algebras, with mathematics professor John Milnor ’51 *54 in 1965, and many important mathematical concepts were named after him. Moore was a faculty member from 1952 to 1989 and was co-chair of the mathematics department in the 1960s. Office of Communications

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India and Brazil. Bring all regional-studies programs Valuing Regional Studies under the umbrella of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Task force: Add J-term to calendar; Studies, and expand PIIRS to include step up efforts on China, India, Brazil more faculty who are jointly appointed in social science departments. s part of PAW’s continuing Create an international-studies coverage of the work of certificate that would give students a A strategic-planning task forces broad perspective on global issues. created by President Eisgruber ’83, this Offer languages not currently issue describes the task force report on PRINCETON’S FUTURE: taught at Princeton through the use regional studies. RECOMMENDATIONS of “shared classrooms” by allowing The task force found that in the students to use video chat to participate social sciences, emphasis on regional students to study abroad even if in classes offered at partner universities. studies — the study of societies and they can’t do so during the summer As examples, the report cited Southeast cultures beyond the United States — or academic year; programs like the Asian, African, and East Asian languages. has decreased in recent years at the summer global seminars could also be Increase graduate-student funding University and throughout the nation. offered during January. for summer language study and research The group’s report urged Princeton Other recommendations: abroad. to “revitalize” regional studies, saying Focus efforts on China, India, and Consolidate European-studies that knowledge of other societies Brazil, with more courses and global courses into a single European-studies and cultures is essential to address seminars on each one. The report called program to encourage interdisciplinary global challenges. for continued support for the Center research. The program would continue The task force also said the academic on Contemporary China, which was to offer existing certificates in European calendar should be changed to create founded in 2015, and the creation of Politics and Societies and in European

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Sprint Football had kept the program Chad Cowden ’17 ran for two touchdowns and afloat in the last two decades, and alumni passed for two more in often have argued that a few admission Princeton’s Nov. 6 loss to spots each year could make a notable Chestnut Hill. difference in the team’s results. The best support for this idea came from the 2012 season, when the Tigers’ roster included four former players from the varsity team. That year, Princeton lost half of its eight games by a touchdown or less and came tantalizingly close to ending the losing streak in a 32–29 overtime loss to Post. But according to the news release, the University “concluded that it was not possible to increase the overall number of recruited athletes” or transfer positions from other sports without affecting the competitiveness of those teams. Ralph Wright ’88, a former player and coach, has been disappointed by the lack of admission support. “Princeton does everything well, and this program they starved and allowed to founder for 20 years,” he said. P.J. Chew ’95, the president of the Friends of Princeton Sprint Football from 1999 to 2012 and a former captain, SPRINT FOOTBALL said that participants in the program believed they were “doing everything right” to move in a positive direction. One Final Defeat Sprint football earned awards for high alumni participation in the annual Tiger Administrators cut program, citing Athletics Give Day fundraiser in 2014 concerns about safety and competitiveness and 2015. The team also paid close attention to player safety, Chew said, ast November, Princeton sprint “We regret having to take this action, thanks to head coach Sean Morey, a football looked poised to end but we do not believe we can sustain former NFL player whose career was cut L its 105-game losing streak in the program at a level that is safe for our short by concussions. league contests. With a season-high 36 students and meets the high standards “Talking to the current players, they points on the scoreboard, the Tigers led we achieve in the rest of our varsity feel like the rug’s been pulled out from Chestnut Hill by 16 points early in the athletics program,” President Eisgruber under them,” Chew said. fourth quarter, before their fortunes took ’83 said in a University news release. The Collegiate Sprint Football League a downward turn. The defense gave up Sprint football, formerly known has been growing in recent years, adding two touchdowns, allowing Chestnut Hill as lightweight or 150-pound football, five new teams from small colleges to to tie the game, and with two minutes requires players to stay below a weight a group that included longstanding remaining, the visiting Griffins pulled limit of 172 pounds, and to fill its roster, programs at Army, Cornell, Navy, and ahead, returning a fumble 85 yards for the team often recruited current students Penn. But even against the newcomers, a touchdown. with no prior football experience. Princeton struggled to compete. It would be the final loss for the sprint Donations to the Friends of Princeton While the Tigers’ poor showing on the football program, which dates back to the field stood out in an athletics department early 1930s. On April 11, the University “Talking to the current that annually leads the Ivy League in announced that it had discontinued players, they feel like championships, the team’s resilience the sport due to concerns about player the rug’s been pulled also inspired admiration, on the campus safety and the team’s competitiveness, out from under them.” and beyond. In 2012, Phil Taylor wrote following a review by athletics staff, — P.J. Chew ’95, former president a Sports Illustrated column about the University administrators, medical staff, of the Friends of Princeton program. It was titled “Losing Isn’t

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knew he had to make a change. After a strong 2015 season, Donn Cabral ’12 is a leading “I realized that I was unsatisfied and Olympic-team contender in a little bit unhappy where I was,” he the steeplechase. says. “And once the running was gone, I just realized that I needed to do something different.” Cabral moved back to the East Coast to join the New Jersey/New York Track Club in the fall of 2013. His return gave him teammates, training partners, and the support system he had lacked — and that proved to be the missing ingredient for his renewed success. After finishing third in the outdoor national steeplechase final the next summer, Cabral returned to the nationals in 2015 and finished second while setting an eye-catching personal best — 8:13.37, a mark that ranks him as the seventh- THE ROAD TO RIO fastest American ever in the event. “That 6-second improvement was the first Clearing Barriers, Cabral ’12 Aims time I had [set a personal record] in the For Strong Olympic Performance steeplechase since May of my senior year,” Cabral notes. For promising track and field collegians, a steeplechase berth on the U.S. Olympic His restored progression has rekindled it is often difficult to make a transition team; and reached the steeplechase final his optimism about this Olympic year. from attentive, multi-faceted university at the London Games, finishing a very “The best approach for me is to call upon support to the often-solitary existence of respectable eighth. my really good ability to focus intently a professional athlete. On the track and But after the Olympics, the newly on something for a long period of time,” off, the better athletes ultimately make signed Nike athlete confronted some says Cabral, who clocked an indoor flat the necessary adjustments. challenges that thwarted his ongoing 3,000-meter personal record of 7:47.18 Donn Cabral ’12 has been one of those improvement. His move to Washington in February’s Millrose Games. better athletes — though the path has not state to pair up with his former high “I am now clearly ready to commit always been smooth. Few Ivy League school coach resulted in a drastic myself fully to be an Olympian again,” athletes have had careers that compare lifestyle change that left him feeling he says. “This year I don’t want to just with the spectacular résumé Cabral alone and unsupported. “I had no thesis survive. Olympic years happen only built while at Princeton. As a senior, the to write. I had no paper to study for. I had once every four years, and nothing is nine-time All-American was named the no meetings to go to,” Cabral explains. guaranteed. So I have to do a better job Outstanding Male Competitor at the “It was just ‘run fast, work hard, and of taking advantage of it. I want to be Penn Relays after he anchored the Tigers recover.’ That was all I did. And I kind of able to go escape and put in a ton more to come-from-behind victories in two key went stagnant a little bit mentally.” training and really have two big periods relays. He also set an NCAA 3,000-meter Cabral later developed a mysterious of focus: Qualify for the Olympics, and steeplechase record at 8:19.14; captured illness, finally diagnosed as Lyme do something really big there.” By the NCAA title in the same event; earned disease. After regaining his health, he Dave Hunter ’72

sports shorts The University dismissed contact with an opposing coach after the season. and Penn April 16 and 20. men’s lacrosse coach midfielder who was leaving In six and a half seasons Ellie DeGarmo ’17 made 16 Chris Bates on April 6, the field during the third with the Tigers, Bates won saves in an 8–7 win over the four days after he shoved quarter. three Ivy League titles and Big Red, while Olivia Hompe a Brown player with his Offensive coordinator compiled a 53–42 record. ’17 scored two goals in a elbow during Princeton’s Matt Madalon took over Through April 21, the 12–7 loss to the Quakers. loss to the Bears. Video for Bates for the five Tigers were 4–7 overall Princeton, Penn, and from the Ivy League remaining games, and the and 1–3 in Ivy play. Cornell were tied for first Network, first published University said it would place in the Ivy League with onAlex Inside Lacrosse.com, begin a national search Women’s lacrosse split two games remaining. Wheatley ’16

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FACULTY BOOK: SEAN WILENTZ reformer and the role of the politician.” Wilentz is particularly sharp in rebutting accusations from the far left, Join the Party including from many academics, that liberals have championed social justice An embrace of tradition as only when protesters have forced them political outsiders are in vogue to do it. Most historians, he explains in an interview, “have come to be so e live in an anti-political age, era of post-partisanship but wised up, mistrustful of politics. They believe that but in his latest book, The Wilentz says, in the face of Republican politicians or office-holders need to be W Politicians & The Egalitarians: intransigence. His signature legislative pushed to do anything, and so give the The Hidden History of American Politics, accomplishment, the Affordable Care lion’s share of the credit for reforms to Professor Sean Wilentz contends that it Act, was muscled through Congress on a outside social movements. And that’s is those who have embraced politics — strict party-line vote. just not the way that politics has ever far more than those who Although Wilentz praises outsiders worked in this country.” profess to rise above it or for their intellectual contributions in Many factors have weakened the disdain it from afar — who the cause of expanding democracy, he parties, most recently the Supreme Court’s have enabled the country emphasizes that political leaders operate decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which to make its greatest social under the imperative of getting things enabled independent groups to raise and economic advances. done. Frederick Douglass, for example, and spend unlimited amounts of money. This is the eighth book was critical of Abraham Lincoln for moving Count Wilentz among those who miss for Wilentz, the George too slowly on emancipation, but came to the old days. “A lot of people just don’t Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American appreciate him later. This was not, Wilentz like political parties, and I think that is a History. The Politicians & The Egalitarians writes, “because [Douglass] turned terrible thing,” he says. “Political parties is a collection of previously published ‘conservative,’ but because he came to are how things get done ... in American essays, but they make a common point recognize, as Lincoln did instinctively, the politics. And the more we weaken them, about the nature of American democracy. difference between the role of the radical the less gets done.” By M.F.B. Although Thomas Jefferson insisted in his first inaugural address that “we are all republicans, we are all federalists,” he knew that partisanship was not only a central feature of the American system, but a highly useful one that channeled popular sentiment into opposing forces that could enact it into law. Nevertheless, Wilentz writes, “The American dream of politics without conflict, and of politics without political parties, has a history as old as American politics.” But that dream has always been a chimera, Wilentz suggests. Anti- partisanship not only is futile, it can be dangerous. “The antiparty current is by definition antidemocratic,” he writes, “as political parties have been the only reliable vehicles for advancing the ideas and interests of ordinary Sean Wilentz thinks voters.” President Barack Obama came democracy requires partisanship.

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geosciences 87 percent of the Arctic’s surface area, Cause for Hope would produce just as much methane. When Lau and graduate student From the North Pole Brandon Stackhouse incubated a soil sample in a sealed container in the lab, Good news about however, something curious happened: climate change Within 30 days, all the methane in the air is rare — but a surrounding the sample disappeared. “We research team led by did not believe it when we saw it,” says geosciences scholar Lau. “We did the incubation three times Chui Yim “Maggie” to make sure the methodology was fine.” Lau Lau has uncovered Rather than a methane source, the some less-bad news about the warming soil turned out to be a methane sink: It of the Arctic: While rising temperatures contained a still-unidentified bacteria will release heat-trapping methane gas, that oxidizes methane, pulling it out of they also will improve the effectiveness the atmosphere. Lau and Stackhouse, of bacteria in the soil that can remove along with other researchers, reported methane from the atmosphere. their findings in an article published in Methane gas is 25 times more ISME Journal last August. effective at trapping heat than is carbon Lau’s team repeated the experiment dioxide, and scientists have worried that with a meter-long soil core sample and as the polar ice caps melt, they will cause developed a computer model showing excess methane to be dumped into the that if the temperature in the Arctic rises warming atmosphere. That could set off 5 to 15 degrees by the end of the century, a vicious circle, as the melting of the ice the soil’s ability to oxidize methane will caps hastens the rate of climate change, increase 5 to 30 times. If the bacteria which in turn speeds up the melting. is present in enough of the soil in the Most of the research on the region, it may offset, or even reverse, the phenomenon, however, has concentrated release of methane into the atmosphere. on carbon-rich soils that form a relatively “We are in the process of estimating small part of the Arctic zone. Lau’s team whether the Arctic region as a whole set out to discover whether mineral soils would be a methane sink,” Lau says. containing less carbon, which make up By Michael Blanding

in short Biology researchers have discovered of compulsive behaviors, including a fountain of youth — at least eating disorders and drug abuse. for bacteria. Professor Michael The mechanism overrides natural Hecht and graduate student Katie decision-making, resulting in Digianantonio have synthesized an behaviors that are repeated despite artificial protein called SynSerB the harm they may cause. The finding out of a million different proteins could help in the development of that never existed in nature. When diagnoses and treatments, according implanted into E. coli bacteria to an article published in the journal lacking the amino acid serine, the eLife in March. new protein brought dying cells back to life. The research, which could hold implications for cell growth in humans, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science in January. Overcoming bad habits may require more than willpower — it may require rewiring the brain. Researchers, including neuroscience professor Nathaniel Daw, have discovered a common mechanism

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WHEN HISTORIANS WRITE ABOUT the 18th-century origins groomed hair; and a ruddy drinker’s complexion. He was well of modern politics, they usually set the scene in a great city, in dressed, and would have struck casual observers as just another the midst of a revolution. They might choose Philadelphia, in well-off, dissipated young Briton guzzling his way through a the sweltering summer of 1776, and describe the delegates to Grand Tour of Europe. His name was James Boswell. Today, the Second Continental Congress hunched over a table signing he is remembered as a great literary figure. His Life of Johnson the Declaration of Independence. Or they might look to Paris, virtually invented the modern art of biography. His vivid, in July of 1789, and tell how a crowd of ordinary Parisians, intimately personal, sexually explicit London Journal, published haphazardly armed but determined, confronted royal troops in for the first time only in 1950, provides an unforgettable front of the imposing fortress called the Bastille. One place they portrait of a young man on the make and of his 18th-century have not thought to single out, however, is the Mediterranean milieu. But in 1765 he was still wholly unknown. island of Corsica, in the early fall of 1765: not a prominent place He was already, however, an extraordinary character. and not a memorable year, or so it is usually thought. But in Although prone to spells of dark melancholy, he otherwise fact, it is here that we can trace, at least in part, the origins of had an effervescent temperament that made him highly a key element of modern political leadership: what is today entertaining company. As he confided to his journal: “I am referred to as “charisma.” one of the most engaging men that ever lived.” He also was a The word “charisma,” which originally meant a gift of divine man of enormous appetites. He ate well, drank to excess, and grace, first entered the lexicon of political analysis a century had already endured several bouts with the lifetime sparring ago, thanks to the great German social theorist Max Weber. partner he privately nicknamed “Signor Gonorrhea.” But he was He used it to denote a person’s ability to inspire exceptional hungry for knowledge and experience as well. During two years devotion because of perceived personal magnetism. He on the continent, he had visited the usual destinations of the contrasted it to the appeal of traditional, patriarchal rulers, British Grand Tourist — art collections, palaces, and picturesque which derives in the first place from their titles and ancestry. ruins — but he also had spent considerable time in libraries American journalists adopted the word in the mid-20th century and classrooms. And he had sought out another, unusual sort and have applied it to political figures from John Kennedy to of tourist attraction: great men. He had set himself the goal Donald Trump. Historians, meanwhile, have drawn on Weber’s of meeting Frederick the Great, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques concept in reference to everyone from George Washington to Rousseau, and while the Prussian monarch snubbed him, the Hitler. But there has been relatively little research on how the two writers did not. At the end of 1764, Boswell had made his phenomenon — which depends as much on the media in which way to the remote Swiss village of Môtiers, and there practically charismatic individuals are represented as on the individuals besieged the reclusive Rousseau’s modest cottage until he won themselves — first developed in its modern form. This is where admittance. He later would repay Rousseau very badly for the Corsica comes in, and the story helps to illuminate the political favor by seducing his mistress, Thérèse Levasseur, but at the world in which we live today. time he impressed the great writer with his wit and enthusiasm. On Oct. 13, 1765, a Scotsman landed on the northern tip of It was thanks to Rousseau that in 1765 Boswell set out for

Corsica. He was just 25 years old, with a wide face; thick, well- Corsica. For some four decades, the island had been fighting Tim Bower Illustrations: W32 Princeton alumni weekly May 11, 2016 “I am one of the most engaging men that ever lived.” JAMES BOSWELL

paw.princeton.edu May 11, 2016 Princeton alumni weekly 33 a slow-burning war of independence against its long-time story is the image of Paoli that circulated outside of Corsica, overlord, the Italian Republic of Genoa (at the time, Italy was above all thanks to Boswell. For this image did a surprising not yet a united country). The Corsicans had won Europe- amount to shape modern ideas of what it means to be a wide attention for their supposed attachment to republican charismatic political figure. liberty, and Rousseau himself had praised them in his recently published Social Contract as the “one country in Europe which oswell’s account of Paoli had two striking features. is fit to receive laws ... .” Rousseau not only talked to Boswell On the one hand, he depicted the Corsican leader about the island, but told him in glowing terms about its leader, as almost inhumanly attractive: tall, handsome, a 45-year-old professional soldier named Pasquale Paoli. Since and gracious; learned, sophisticated, and coming to power 10 years before, Paoli had brought peace fearsomely intelligent; entirely devoted to the to the perennially fractious Corsican clans, reorganized the commonB good. Boswell claimed that until he met Paoli, he had island’s government and military, and even founded a press believed such a man could no more exist in reality than “seas and a university, despite conditions of such poverty that he of milk” or “ships of amber.” But at the same time, Boswell routinely scraped the ink off letters he received so as to reuse took care to provide intimate, “behind the scenes” vignettes the paper. Here was another great man for Boswell to add to of Paoli. “One morning I remember,” the Scotsman wrote, “I his collection, and the young Scot could not resist seeking out came in upon him without ceremony, while he was dressing. I Paoli, despite the not-inconsiderable risk of falling prey to sea was glad to have an opportunity of seeing him in those teasing pirates or bandits, or being taken by the Corsicans for a spy. moments, when, according to the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, No pirates materialized, and Boswell suffered nothing no man is a hero to his valet de chambre.” He also carefully worse on the two-day journey than fleas, vermin, and the dark noted small quirks that made Paoli seem less perfect and warnings of the crew to stay away from their women (they more approachable, such as his inability to sit still for more clearly knew their man). He landed safely at the northern than five minutes. Finally, wherever possible, Boswell adopted tip of the island, and then undertook a grueling, 120-mile the breathless, melodramatic style of a sentimental novelist. trek southward, arriving more than a week later in the town Describing the moment when Paoli parted from his exiled of Sollacaro, where Paoli was staying. The Corsican leader father, and began his return to Corsica to lead the rebellion, initially reacted with suspicion, thinking that Boswell — who he wrote: “The old man, hoary and gray with years, fell on his kept scribbling down detailed notes of everything he saw — neck, and kissed him, gave him his blessing, and with a broken had indeed come to spy. But soon enough, the Boswellian feeble voice, encouraged him in the undertaking on which he charm — plus a letter of introduction from Rousseau — was entering; ‘My son,’ said he, ‘I may, possibly, never see you produced the desired effect. And Paoli for his part realized more; but in my mind I shall ever be present with you.’” that Boswell might prove useful in mobilizing British support In Boswell’s hands, in other words, Paoli came off as a very for the rebellion. So he treated his visitor royally, feasting him, new sort of political leader. He was not a king, whose right to introducing him to Corsican clan leaders, allowing him to rule came from his ancestors. He was not a prophet, anointed ride his own finely outfitted horse, and spending long hours in by God. And while he was a symbol of liberty, he was not a conversation with him. When, after nearly two weeks, Boswell democratic statesman who had come to office as the result of began the long trip back to the mainland, Paoli gave him a an election. He was a paragon of nature who led by virtue of series of rich gifts, including an elegant suit of clothes, a brace his extraordinary personal gifts, and who bound his followers of pistols, and a dog. Boswell asked Paoli to write him letters, to him through sheer, intense emotion. “Paoli sways the hearts and to do so as a philosopher and man of letters. “He took me of his countrymen,” Boswell wrote. “Their love for him is by the hand,” Boswell later wrote, “and said, ‘as a friend.’” such, that ... [his] power knows no bounds. It is high treason Boswell nearly collapsed with pleasure. so much as to speak against, or calumniate him; a species of Almost from the moment he landed back in Italy, Boswell despotism, founded, contrary to the principles of Montesquieu, started writing about Corsica and Paoli for London newspapers, on the affection of love.” These qualities remain central to and told everyone that his experiences on the island had left him the phenomenon of political charisma today. A charismatic a changed man. “Paoli,” he wrote to Rousseau, “has infused politician is still one who is viewed as possessing extraordinary my soul with a firmness that it will never lose.” Arriving back personal gifts, but who also seems approachable — who inspires in Britain in early 1766, Boswell talked of nothing but Corsica feelings of intensely personal devotion and friendship, or even and Paoli to his literary acquaintances, and they urged him to love. To be sure, today the image of charismatic individuals is write a book. “Give us as many anecdotes as you can,” Samuel transmitted to the public largely by electronic media, which Johnson told him. Boswell set to work, and in February 1768 shape the message as they do so. In the 18th century, the there appeared An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to message was transmitted and shaped by printed prose. But the That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. story is still recognizable. Although the book devoted considerable space to a Today, James Boswell’s book is usually remembered for how description of the island, it was the portrait of Paoli that caught it launched its author’s literary career. It sold at least 7,000 readers’ attention. This portrait was quite different from that copies in Britain, to say nothing of four pirated Irish editions. of the actual Paoli, as historians now view him. The historical It was translated into French, German, Dutch, and Italian. Paoli was admirable in many respects, but also a consummate Reviewers gushed. King George III himself was heard to say and occasionally brutal political operator whose rule in Corsica that “I have read Boswell’s book which is well written.” In 1769, was decidedly authoritarian. But what matters more for our Boswell appeared at the Shakespeare Jubilee in Stratford-upon-

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paw.princeton.edu Avon wearing the suit and pistols Paoli had given him, and with Washington’s biographers, often play down the fact, but to an the words “Corsica Boswell” inscribed on the outside of his hat. astonishing extent, Washington became an object of almost- As he later put it, “I had got upon a rock in Corsica, and jumped universal adulation in America well before he had done much into the middle of life.” to earn it. Although he succeeded in driving the British out of But the book also made a previously obscure Corsican Boston in the spring of 1776, the year 1776 as a whole was a rebel a celebrity in the English-speaking world. Following its military disaster for the new United States. Washington lost publication, references to Paoli and his movement multiplied the Battle of Long Island, abandoned New York City to the manyfold in the British press. Engraved portraits of Paoli British, and then fled ignominiously across New Jersey with a appeared, as did a profusion of mostly mediocre verse, disintegrating army. British officers believed they had crushed including a work called The Paoliad. The well-known poet Anna the rebellion, and in December Thomas Paine put out the first Barbauld praised “the godlike man who saved his country.” issue of The American Crisis, which opened with the famous A British women’s magazine published a recipe for “Chicken words: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” American Paoli,” and the sporting press tracked at least four racehorses Gen. Charles Lee wrote to his colleague Horatio Gates: “entre named Pascal Paoli. In several novels from the late 1760s, nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. ... Unless characters spoke of “going a volunteer under the brave Paoli” something which I do not expect turns up we are lost.” much as Britons of the 1930s spoke of going to fight in Spain. Yet all through this disastrous year, that “certain great man” Boswell helped lead a campaign that raised nearly £15,000 was by far the most popular person in North America. Ships to buy arms for Paoli — an immense sum at the time — and and towns were named for him and his wife. Printed portraits calls for British intervention on the side of the rebels became of him appeared by the thousands, and when he arrived in New intense. Lord Holland, a leader of the Whig party, was forced to York in the spring of 1776, more people turned out to see him comment: “Foolish as we are, we cannot be so foolish as to go than had ever gathered together in the city. Jonathan Mitchell to war because Mr. Boswell has been in Corsica.” Sewall composed a widely publicized song whose chorus ended Ultimately, Britain did not intervene, and Paoli’s rebellion with praise for “glorious Washington.” Phillis Wheatley, the did not survive. The Kingdom of France, having bought the enslaved African American poet, seemed to hail Washington rights to Corsica from the Genoese, sent in its well-equipped as a king: “A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, / professional army to occupy the island, and against this With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! Be thine.” Although opponent, Paoli’s ragtag forces had no chance. By the end Washington had a military command, not a political position, of 1768 they had been defeated, and Paoli himself went into he was already being seen as the embodiment of the new exile. He eventually landed in London, where he bought a large nation. As early as 1778, a Pennsylvania almanac would hail townhouse and became part of Boswell’s social and literary him as “father of his country.” circle. Boswell himself moved on to a new subject of adulation: Looking back many years later on what he saw as the Dr. Johnson, the subject of his great biography. In Britain, the “mystery” of Washington’s early reputation, John Adams vogue for Paoli and his Corsicans gradually faded. wrote a remarkable letter to his friend Benjamin Rush (a Princeton graduate and the son-in law of Princeton’s first et elsewhere, the vision of Paoli that Boswell president, John Witherspoon). “The great Character,” he had done so much to shape had a surprisingly began, “was a Character of Convention. ... There was a time enduring impact. One such place, crucially, was when ... Statesmen, and ... Officers of The Army, expressly British North America, where the last acts of the agreed to blow the Trumpets of Panegyric in concert; to cover Corsican rebellion coincided with the first great and dissemble all Faults and Errors; to represent every defeat Ywave of pre-revolutionary colonial agitation. As a symbol as a Victory, and every Retreat as an Advancement; to make of resistance against despotic overseas rule, Paoli served an that Character popular and fashionable, with all Parties in obvious political purpose for the Americans. Boswell’s book all places and with all Persons, as a Centre of Union, as the sold well in the 13 colonies, and a popular almanac reprinted Central Stone in the Geometrical Arch.” In Adams’ view, extracts. Between 1755 and 1775, Paoli’s name appeared in Washington’s reputation, at least initially, owed less to the American newspapers nearly 2,000 times. Right through man’s achievements than to the American revolutionaries’ the outbreak of the American Revolution, these newspapers need for a heroic figure who could serve as a unifying and reprinted poetic paeans to Paoli, as well as letters Paoli himself inspiring symbol. And who better than Washington? As had written to the British press. (In one of these, probably in contemporary observers rarely failed to mention, he was reaction to Boswell, he insisted: “My character has not been exceptionally tall, strong, and graceful, enjoyed a spotless that of a hero of romance ... . There is nothing more real than personal reputation, and seemed almost impossibly noble and the object I pursue.”) John Hancock named one of his ships virtuous. As Washington’s career proceeded, he would earn the the Paoli, and a number of unfortunate Americans grew up adulation that was heaped on him, and turn into much more with names such as Pascal Paoli Macintosh and Pascal Paoli than just a “character of convention.” But in 1775 and 1776, his Leavens. A tavern called the Paoli outside of Philadelphia reputation was still mostly a product of the extraordinary hopes eventually gave its name to the town of Paoli, Pa., the first of at and desires of his American followers. least six communities called Paoli in the United States. Is it too much to suggest that what Americans had earlier Paoli’s vogue in America is today largely forgotten, but it read about Pascal Paoli prepared them to invest Washington arguably played a role in the career of a man who soon became with these hopes and desires? It may simply be the case that infinitely better known: George Washington. Historians, and Washington benefited from the same historical processes that

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36paw0511_CharismaRev1.indd 36 4/26/16 1:31 PM had earlier allowed Paoli to serve as the focus and incarnation of his admirers’ political dreams. But there is at least some evidence that the cult of Paoli had direct influence on what followed in America. In 1780, newspapers in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut reprinted a poem about Paoli that had appeared in Boswell’s Account, and added this note of explanation: “The character of the above General [Paoli], and that of our illustrious Commander in Chief, are so similar, that the following selected lines made on the former are well adapted and very applicable to the latter — only for the words CORSICA and PAOLI substitute AMERICA and WASHINGTON.”

here was, of course, one other area of the Western world where Paoli’s name continued to cast a spell for long after his 1768 defeat: Corsica itself. Despite Paoli’s defeat and the French occupation, many Corsicans continued to yearn for Tindependence and to venerate the exiled leader. One of these was a man, born in 1769, a son of one of Paoli’s supporters, who benefited from French rule by gaining the chance to attend a prestigious French military school: Napoleon Bonaparte. As an adolescent, even while serving as a junior officer in the French artillery, Napoleon was passionately devoted to the Corsican cause. At the age of 20, as the French Revolution was beginning, he wrote to introduce himself to the exiled Paoli, in decidedly overblown prose: “General, I was born as the fatherland was dying. Thirty thousand Frenchmen, vomited on our coasts, were drowning the throne of liberty in torrents of blood. ... You left our island, and as you did our hopes of happiness disappeared.” How did the young Napoleon learn about Paoli? Having In Adams’ view, lived mostly on the French mainland, he had little contact with Corsicans with personal memories of the man. But in 1784, at Washington’s age 15, Napoleon asked his father to send him Boswell’s History of Corsica — and it seems likely that this most charismatic of all reputation, at least French leaders, who emerged out of the turmoil of the French Revolution to rule the greatest European empire since the days initially, owed of Rome, found decisive inspiration in this source. It was not so much the real Paoli, the Corsican Paoli, who inspired him. It was the literary image of Paoli, crafted with supreme skill by less to the man’s the young Scotsman who had gone to Corsica in 1765. Two hundred and fifty years later, it is not talented achievements than writers like Boswell who shape the image of charismatic political leaders. These leaders’ image takes shape above to the American all in electronic media. The Boswells of our day are the men and women who produce and direct 30-second television revolutionaries’ advertisements, and who try to direct the unruly forces of social media. But the qualities by which charismatic individuals need for a heroic exercise their appeal — above all the combination of apparently extraordinary personal gifts with the ability to forge intensely personal, emotional connections with followers — remain much figure who the same. And as we are seeing in the presidential campaign of 2016, these qualities are just as explosively powerful today as could serve as they were in the Age of Democratic Revolutions. a unifying and David A. Bell *91 is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions at Princeton. His book Men on inspiring symbol. Horseback: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Revolutions is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. paw.princeton.edu May 11, 2016 Princeton alumni weekly 37 Samuel Stanhope Smith Was Princeton’s seventh president a bigot, a progressive, or both? By Nicholas Guyatt *03

uring the the College of New Jersey were slaveholders, as were many of protests last the early trustees. Within a generation of Princeton’s founding, year that however, both faculty and students began to challenge slavery. culminated in Princetonians also became interested in the other major nonwhite the occupation population on the American continent, the Native Americans of President who stood in the way of the nation’s westward expansion. Eisgruber ’83’s Princeton and its graduates would confront both of these racial office, students “problems” in the decades after the American Revolution, led by the Black guided by the writings and teaching of America’s most Justice League celebrated racial theorist of his time: Samuel Stanhope Smith. insisted that the problems mith was born in Pennsylvania in 1751; he graduated of race and in 1769 with a passion for mathematics, natural memory on sciences, and theology. Like his father, Smith campus went became a Presbyterian clergyman and a teacher. beyond the naming of the Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson SHe didn’t see any antagonism between religion and science, College. The protesters asked for a “cultural space on campus and during his long career on the Princeton faculty Smith dedicated specifically to Black students,” named for a person transformed the College’s curriculum and purpose. In the of the students’ choosing rather than for “a white benefactor 1770s, when Smith began teaching at Princeton, the College Dor person with bigoted beliefs, as evidenced by the naming of was principally a training ground for Presbyterian ministers. Stanhope Hall.” By 1812, when he resigned the presidency, undergraduates were Samuel Stanhope Smith 1769, who led what was then the studying chemistry and philosophy — and creatively combining College of New Jersey from 1795 to 1812, might have noted a the two in their protests against the administration. Princeton’s couple of ironies here. First, Smith presided over an institution emergence as the most modern university in the nation alarmed at which undergraduate riots were a common occurrence, and the trustees, who happily accepted Smith’s resignation. The challenges to the president’s authority were both flamboyant Presbyterian Church, meanwhile, felt the need to found a and familiar. (In 1802, he accused his students of starting a theological seminary within sight of Nassau Hall to do the work devastating fire that nearly destroyed Nassau Hall.) Second, that the College of New Jersey had once performed. Smith was celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic as the Smith’s innovations as an educator were matched by his leading defender of the “unity of mankind.” Differences in bold thinking about race. He came of age at a moment of huge physical appearance and skin color, he argued in print and interest in the subject. Imperialism and the Atlantic slave in his Princeton lectures, were entirely the product of one’s trade had introduced European scientists and philosophers to environment. Race was a fiction. a key question: Since human beings in different parts of the So did the Black Justice League identify the wrong dead world looked very different, how could they all be descended white male as a bigot? The short answer is ... it’s complicated. from Adam and Eve? Enlightenment thinkers proposed a Princeton has been grappling with the issue of race for longer simple answer: Human beings were profoundly shaped by the

than the nation itself has existed. The first eight presidents of environment — natural and social — in which they lived. The Collection, Sharples, James British, 1752–1811, Library/Firestone Princeton University A. giftClass of 1856 of Alfred Woodhull, Samuel Stanhope Class of 1769, Smith,

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38,41paw0511_StanhopeRev1.indd 38 4/26/16 1:32 PM Samuel Stanhope Smith 1769: Princeton president and theorist on race paw.princeton.edu May 11, 2016 Princeton alumni weekly 39 French naturalist and writer Comte de Buffon (Georges-Louis mankind are much less than they appear to be.” Leclerc) ventured a memorable hypothesis: If you took a few Then, abruptly, White Eyes’ academic career came to a halt. dozen white residents of Denmark and swapped them with The young Delaware had fallen in with a group of dissolute a few dozen black Senegalese, within a few generations the and unruly students, and in December 1787 he was formally descendants of the groups would swap places: The Senegalese admonished for his conduct. By 1789, White Eyes was living in would be white, and the Danes would be black. Armed with poverty in New York City. When Congress cut off his stipend, this confidence in the power of the environment, theorists he complained to George Washington of “the treatment I met like Smith could solve the mystery of human diversity without with at Princeton” and the bad reputation that had followed threatening humanity’s roots in the Garden of Eden. him to New York. White Eyes eventually returned to the West, Ironically, it was the rise of the first antislavery movement and was later killed in a brawl. Washington concluded that in the 1770s that brought “scientific” racism into the open. educating Native Americans in the nation’s most prestigious Stung by the language of human brotherhood that inspired colleges was a bad idea. White Eyes’ experience was “not such early antislavery campaigners in Europe and America, French as can be productive of any good to their nations,” he told a and British supporters of slavery suggested that black people friend in 1791. “It is, perhaps, productive of evil.” might be permanently inferior to whites. Thomas Jefferson Smith must have known the sad ending to White Eyes’ became the first prominent American to test the same logic. In Princeton career, but he changed barely a word of his upbeat his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson “advance[d] it as account in the Essay’s second edition of 1810. During the a suspicion only” that black people “are inferior to the whites in intervening decades, Smith’s ideas about racial “improvement” the endowments both of body and mind.” had been reworked on a national scale. The administrations of This was anathema to Smith, who produced an elegant Washington, Adams, and Jefferson crafted a “civilizing” policy riposte. His Essay on the Causes of Variety of Complexion and that expected Native Americans to embrace white society and Figure in the Human Species was first delivered as a paper to even to intermarry with white settlers. When Native American the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1787. nations placed a higher value on their own land and culture, The published version, which appeared the following year, they were drawn into wars with the United States that relieved became one of the most celebrated scientific studies before them of both. Smith had suggested that Native Americans Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). Smith was unwavering in his would welcome the chance to embrace a superior civilization. insistence that all men were created equal. Every difference in With no explanation for why indigenous people might prefer the human form could be explained by “the minutest causes, their own culture, Smith’s theory ran aground on the realities of acting constantly, and long continued.” Crucially, human westward expansion. variations were reversible. Enlightened reformers could change These ideas about the malleability of human appearance virtually every aspect of a human being if they simply altered and behavior informed Smith’s approach to African Americans the environment in which that person lived — moving to a as well as to Native Americans. We know from a 1784 different climate, for example, or adopting the customs and newspaper advertisement that Smith owned at least one slave practices of a more “civilized” people. On Jefferson’s tentative during his time at Princeton, a farmhand whom Smith was keen racial hierarchy, Smith was witheringly brief: “These remarks to exchange for another slave “accustomed to cooking and upon the genius of the African negro appear to me to have so waiting in a genteel family.” This preference for house slaves little foundation in true philosophy that few observations will made its way into Smith’s Essay. There was, he insisted, a “great be necessary to refute them.” difference” between the facial features of “domestic and field Smith was a universalist, believing that all humans had slaves.” House slaves soon began to resemble their masters, the same potential, but decidedly not a relativist. He didn’t both in their features and their conduct. This gave Smith hope recognize African or Native cultures as equivalent to Anglo- that, if “admitted to a liberal participation of the society, rank American culture, and his hopes for the nation’s future were and privileges of their masters, they would change their African grounded in his belief that blacks and Native Americans could be “improved” — physically and culturally — until they closely resembled white people. In the Essay, Smith wrote about an Smith didn’t recognize early experiment in racial “improvement” at Princeton. In 1785, a Delaware Indian named George Morgan White Eyes entered African or Native cultures as Nassau Hall to begin his freshman year. The young student’s equivalent to Anglo-American father, White Eyes, had been killed by American militiamen in 1778, and the U.S. Congress had voted funds for his son culture, and his hopes for the to be educated at Princeton. “From an accurate observation nation’s future were grounded of him,” Smith wrote in the Essay, “I have received the most perfect conviction that the same state of society, united with in his belief that blacks and the same climate, would make the Anglo-American and the Indian countenance very nearly approximate.” Smith conceded Native Americans could be that a childhood spent among Native American people on “improved” — physically and the frontier had produced some “obvious differences” in physical appearance. But by 1787, young White Eyes’ progress culturally — until they closely at Princeton had convinced Smith that “the varieties among resembled white people.

40 Princeton alumni weekly May 11, 2016 peculiarities much faster.” Smith’s view of human potential American Colonization Society map showing coastal towns in was tethered to the cumbersome belief that blacks and Indians Liberia in the 1850s. More than 5,000 African Americans moved to Liberia during that decade. could escape from their physical appearance as well as from slavery or “the savage state.” slavery. Even if white Southerners agreed to “improve” and Smith took up the subject of black “improvement” in his free their slaves, the road ahead was daunting. Smith thought undergraduate lectures at Princeton. He acknowledged that that many whites would retain “prejudices” against ex-slaves slavery was wrong and that white Americans had a duty to that would prevent social cohesion. Newly freed people might abolish it, while insisting that slavery had done real damage become alienated from their white neighbors and fall in with to the morals of its victims. “No event can be more dangerous their fellow blacks who were still in bondage. A program of to a community than the sudden introduction into it of vast gradual abolition might easily spin off into a race war, undoing multitudes of persons … possessing only the habits and vices all of Smith’s hopes. of slavery,” Smith declared. The solution was to cultivate His solution was, if nothing else, bold: The United States “good moral and industrious habits” among slaves before should set aside a “large district” in the West, and persuade emancipation. Perhaps slaveholders could give their slaves a freed people to resettle far from the heartlands of slavery. small area of land to cultivate in their free time, paying them Whites should be offered land grants to marry African modest wages and finally rewarding their hard work. The Americans and live alongside them in the new territory. “In a payoff for masters would be a more virtuous class of freed course of time,” Smith told his Princeton students, the scheme people, a prerequisite for social harmony after emancipation. would “obliterate those wide distinctions which are now The Virginia abolitionist George Bourne later remarked created by diversity of complexion.” He feared that neither that Princeton’s Southern students must have been laughing the states nor the federal government were likely to make the behind their hands at Smith’s portrait of the kindly slaveholder. “great sacrifices” this scheme required. But he promised his But most white reformers in Smith’s day worked from the same students that, if slavery were allowed to continue unchecked, it

D.C. Division, Washington, and Map Geography Library of Congress assumption: that masters would be central to the abolition of would “be productive of many moral and political evils.”

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Membership certificate for James Madison 1771, dated 1816.

he first half of this outlandish scheme had a strange fact that most mainstream opponents of slavery before the afterlife, thanks to the careers of two of Smith’s Civil War were also segregationists. Princeton’s role in this students. Robert Finley, who became a clergyman in is easier to establish. Colonization took root in the ideas of Basking Ridge, N.J., after graduating from Princeton Samuel Stanhope Smith, and developed in the shadow of his Tin 1787, was fascinated by the problem Smith had defined in intellectual frustrations and disappointments. His students his lectures: How could the evil of slavery be safely removed met the challenge of integrating the races with a clever fudge: from the nation? Charles Fenton Mercer, the son of a Virginia Slavery could be ended through the logic of separate-but-equal. slaveholder, graduated from Princeton in 1797 with a conviction Should Smith’s story have any bearing on our conversation that slavery should be abolished. He went on to become a about race and memory on campus? I think so, for two reasons. congressman from Virginia, a role that gave him a powerful First, a narrow focus on Woodrow Wilson 1879 may distract platform to develop his convictions. from the longer history of racial injustice at Princeton. In Mercer and Finley met with Smith in the fall of 1816 as April, when discussing President Wilson’s decision in 1909 to their plans took shape. Finley then convened his first discourage a young black Virginian from applying to Princeton, colonization meeting in Princeton, before traveling to the distinguished Wilson biographer A. Scott Berg ’71 asked us Washington in December 1816 to found the American to recall that the University had “existed for 160 years before Colonization Society (ACS). having to deal with an African American.” Yet a full accounting The society immediately attracted the most powerful of Princeton’s past requires us to look far beyond Wilson. men in the nation to its ranks. James Madison 1771 welcomed Samuel Stanhope Smith — or, to be more precise, Stanhope Finley to Washington, while James Monroe, his successor Hall — also may have something to teach us about the politics in the White House, helped the society to purchase what of commemoration. In the recent debate over Wilson, became the colony of Liberia in 1820. (The colony got its name opponents of renaming warned against dishonoring the from the Maryland politician Robert Goodloe Harper 1785, achievements of our forebears or erasing difficult truths. But yet another colonization supporter who had been taught by the process of remembering is always about the present as Smith at Princeton.) Colonization became the most popular well as the past. For more than a century after Smith raised solution to the problem of slavery among “moderate” whites the money to build it, Stanhope Hall was known by other across the nation. The ACS struggled to win support from free names: the University Offices, the Library, Geological Hall. blacks, who suspected its motives and its white managers, The trustees of his time were hardly likely to confer the and it eventually drew the fire of William Lloyd Garrison and honor on President Smith, whose educational reforms had so radical abolitionists. But in the decades before the Civil War, exasperated them before his forced retirement in 1812. Memory colonization proposals drew support from some of the most is not only an inheritance, but an act of shared expression. We celebrated figures in American public life: from Madison, find community in the past partly through our willingness to who became the ACS president in 1833, to Henry Clay, Daniel challenge it. Webster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and even Abraham Lincoln. It’s hard to measure the effect of the colonization Nicholas Guyatt *03 teaches history at Cambridge University and movement on the long-term place of black people in America, is the author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans

though I think we need to pay much more attention to the Invented Racial Segregation (Basic). the Library of Congress at Papers Madison The James

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ON THE SET: From left, Olivia Stoker ’11, Phoenix Gonzalez ’11 (with director Ram Lavarro), and Kay Zhang ’11 shoot an episode of “The Common Era,” their online web series due out in May. The trio model the show on their friendship, forged at Princeton. The question is, “How do you use your education and this new medium to create compelling stories that break the existing mold with as much humor and compassion as possible?” Gonzalez says. Barros Ricardo

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lectures on astronomy, the economy, and Judaic studies; panels on student and religious life; an arch sing by the student a cappella group Koleinu, which performs Jewish music; and a comedic latke- hamantaschen debate (hamantaschen, the pastry ridiculed as “a mere confection” by pro-potato Team Latke, won). Brandeis University professor Jonathan Sarna, a leading scholar of American Jewish history, put the experience of Jews at Princeton into historical perspective, and Shabbat dinner with Rabbi alumni genealogists gave tips on tracing Darcie DuBois Crystal ’97. family histories and finding lost relatives. JEWISH ALUMNI CONFERENCE There were celebrations of Jewish food, music, and jokes. Jeremy Ben-Ami ’84, founder and A CENTURY OF JEWISH LIFE president of the liberal “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobbying group J Street; and Once ‘insiders and outsiders’ at the same time, Martin Kramer ’75 *82, president of alumni return to a more welcoming Princeton Shalem College in Israel and a scholar of Middle East politics, discussed Israeli About 900 alumni and guests came to secret hidden by his refugee mother. policy and Israel-U.S. relations in a campus April 14–16 to celebrate a century He poignantly discussed how Jews on lively session that illustrated the policy of Jewish life at Princeton. For alumni, campus often felt like both insiders and divisions among American Jews. the conference — called L’Chaim: To outsiders. “We love this place but we want Princeton’s Jewish history was Life! — was a time to schmooze, attend to be honest about its history,” he said. uncovered and told in a senior thesis lectures, and recall both the good and Although Jews have attended Princeton by Abby Klionsky ’14, who found that the bad of their time at Princeton. since the 19th century (see timeline), Jewish life at Princeton was created “We don’t want to just say things used organized Jewish religious activity at largely by students. Marcus Lester to be bad and now they’re fine,” noted Princeton began in 1915–16, when Rabbi Aaron 1920 helped form a small student President Eisgruber ’83, who participated Harry K. Jacobs visited the handful congregation, and in 1919 gathered 10 in much of the conference. Eisgruber of Jewish students. At a lunchtime students for services, forming the first seemed to strike a special chord with discussion with Shapiro, former President campus minyan, or prayer quorum. many participants when he identified Bill Bowen *58 noted that over the years, Nearly 30 years later, Ernest Stock himself as Princeton’s “second Jewish Jewish students often “felt like guests, ’49, a German refugee whose father president” (Harold Shapiro *64 was the not hosts” — and he did much to improve survived Buchenwald, co-organized first) and recounted how he discovered the environment during his tenure. the 1947 service that inaugurated

his own Jewish roots late in life, a Conference activities included Princeton’s Student Hebrew Association Sameer A. Khan

A BRIEF TIMELINE OF JEWISH LIFE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 1859: Albert H. Mordecai 1947: The 1961: Yavneh 1863 of South Carolina, Student House, at 21 believed to be one of the Hebrew Olden St., opens first Jewish students at Association to serve the Princeton, matriculates. is founded Orthodox student and holds its community. 1915: First Friday Shabbat service. first service on campus, attended by

Albert Einstein. In 1948 it becomes a 1971: Stevenson Hall, the first The Daily Princetonian 1919: Ten men gather in a student’s chapter of Hillel, the national Jewish University-sponsored kosher kitchen room for services — the first campus organization. in the Ivy League, opens at 83 documented prayer minyan of Prospect Ave. Princeton students. 1958: Dirty Bicker: Of 23 sophomores denied bids to selective clubs, 15 1983: The Committee on Judaic 1920s: Jewish enrollment is limited are Jews. Studies is formed; it becomes the to about 3 percent, though no official, Ronald O. Perelman Institute for

written quota exists. Judaic Studies in 1995. Archives; Princeton University

44 Princeton alumni weekly May 11, 2016 PRINCETONIANS GET YOUR OFFICIALLY LICENSED — inviting Albert Einstein, who spoke to the 40 students about the importance of belonging to a Jewish community. (At PRINCETON CLASS RING the alumni conference, Rabbi Julie Roth, executive director of the Center for Jewish FREE ENGRAVING - SUPERPREMIUM QUALITY - CUSTOM DESIGNS Life, looked around the multipurpose room at Frist Campus Center during a prayer service and exclaimed: “Einstein would be amazed!”) Veterans returning from World War II made Princeton more open, and the “dirty bicker” in 1958 marked the beginning of the end of the old system. “What I found most fascinating and surprising,” Klionsky said, “was the degree to which the Jewish alumni I interviewed did not believe themselves to have been slighted in any way by anti- Semitism on campus.” VIEW & ORDER AT: Recent decades have seen an THE PRINCETON U-STORE OR increasing willingness to accommodate Jews at Princeton; today, the 23-year- RINGWARE.COM/PRINCETONUSTORE old Center for Jewish Life offers kosher dining, social activities, and religious services. “Once infamous for its anti- Semitism,” said Roth, “Princeton is (800) 643-3776 [email protected] now positioned as a thought leader and innovator in Jewish life on campus.” Wrapping up the conference was speaker Mark Wilf ’84, best known for Presidential Politics 2016: his family’s ownership of the Minnesota Vikings football team. He related how The Road his “Babu Miriam” and father barely survived the Holocaust, and reminded to the the crowd what a privilege a Princeton education was. He urged participants White House                  Princeton Pro-Life, to “reflect and think about your own The Anscombe Society journey to get here,” and to stay REUNIONS PANEL & The Christian Union involved, mentor, and give back. Saturday, May 28, 10:30 a.m., with special guest By Michael Goldstein ’78 ARobert Pro-Life, P. George in the Senate Chamber, Whig Hall McCormick Professor of A BRIEF TIMELINE OF JEWISH LIFE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY                  Pro-FamilyJurisprudence, Director JamesAlumni Madison Program 1988: Harold … A panel of journalists, FridayGathering Shapiro *64, May 27, 2016 Princeton’s first moderated by 4:00-6:00 pm at Jewish president, Washington Post reporter Butler College, is installed. 1915 Room Joel Achenbach ’82 1993: The Center for Jewish Life opens. Reunions! Co-sponsored by the 2002: The Lubavitcher Chabad movement arrives on campus. Ferris Journalism Seminars An inconspicuous physical 2015: in Princeton’s boundary, called an eruv, is completed,

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Q&A: MICHAEL BROWN ’87 of these other objects to oscillate. And they do. Finally, we decided to plot where IS THERE A NINTH PLANET? these other objects ought to be in the sky, if there is a massive planet shaping Using mathematical models and their orbits. They were exactly where the computer simulations, astronomer model predicted they should be! Mike Brown ’87 and a colleague at the California Institute of Technology have You estimate that this planet is found strong evidence that our solar about the size of Neptune. Why system includes a ninth planet. He talked hasn’t anyone seen it yet? with PAW about the possible new celestial It’s faint because it’s so far away. At body, unofficially called Planet Nine. its closest approach, it’s about 200 times the distance from the Earth to the How did you find it? sun, or about seven times farther away A group of astronomers published a organized by a planet with a very than Neptune. paper a few years ago saying they had elongated orbit. We then ran computer seen these weird alignments of 13 objects simulations that showed that reality Who would get to name it? in the outer part of the solar system, the is more complicated than the simple There’s no answer to that because there Kuiper Belt. My colleague Konstantin calculations we made; the objects don’t aren’t supposed to be any more planets. Batygin and I started our own study align with the planet, but they anti-align The International Astronomical Union and realized that the orbits of six of — so that when the planet makes its will probably claim the right, but it will these objects are all aligned the same closest approach to the sun, these objects be interesting to see if that works for way. That was very unlikely to happen are 180 degrees opposite it. them. When William Herschel discovered randomly and was a clue that something The moment I actually started Uranus in 1781, he wanted to name it after must be shaping their orbits. believing that Planet Nine existed was King George III, but of course no one We first assumed that you could when we realized that a planet on such listened. It was nearly 70 years, though,

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Celebrate Making civic engagement part of the Princeton student experience. 15 Years of Meaningful Service! Fuller Patterson ’38 leans on the tail section PRINCETONIANS of his Spitfire aircraft in November 1941. When Patterson failed to return with his squadron, he was reported killed in action, but there were no details available until nearly five years later, when the International Red Cross located his mother and delivered Verhelst’s letter. Patterson joined more than 10,000 RAF pilots — and 290,000 Americans — killed in combat during World War II. But those are just numbers. As Henri Verhelst’s letter attests, there was a story behind every one of them.

“He was a fine fellow,” recalls John Hardy ’38 *39, who roomed with Patterson for two years at Princeton. Patterson was the pride of Richmond, an all-state football player and president FULLER PATTERSON ’38 of his class at Woodberry Forest School. “I am selecting Princeton as the college where I hope to attain my collegiate WAR STORY education,” he wrote in his application, On Memorial Day, remembering a “because it is an institution which offers the type of education necessary for Princetonian and a Belgian’s loving deed success in the world of tomorrow.” He was a young man in a hurry, so The first American casualty of Dec. 7, to escape. “Alas, fate had decided eager that he signed up for too many 1941, that date which will live in infamy, otherwise,” he wrote. “It’s with a heavy, courses freshman year and had to be occurred more than 7,400 miles from anxious heart, that I saw the big bird told to drop one. Though his family had Pearl Harbor, on the coast of Belgium. being massacred, the plane which founded the R.A. Patterson tobacco While sailors and airmen slept at the carried inside of it, your beloved son, its company, which developed Lucky Strike U.S. naval base in Hawaii, Richard Fuller wings forcefully broken, the bird which cigarettes, Patterson’s father died when Patterson ’38 was half a world away, flew toward the sea, had to succumb he was just a boy, and the son attended flying a Spitfire for the Royal Air Force. at the edge of the great expanse of Princeton on scholarship, supporting His sortie had taken off from its base water ... . ” himself as manager of Tower Club. in England and just crossed the North A Messerschmitt pilot who attacked Popular and outgoing, Patterson also Sea when the Luftwaffe intercepted it. the RAF squadron wrote in his report was intensely private. Hardy says that, Patterson was no stranger to trouble in that Patterson had been hit by machine although they had roomed together for the skies. In barely a year since earning gun fire and was slumped over his two years in prep school just a few miles his wings, he had crashed once, made controls as he went down. Verhelst raced from Patterson’s home, he was not even two forced landings, and bailed out twice into the waves, pulled Patterson’s body aware that Patterson had siblings until he when his plane caught fire. from the wreckage, and was copying his saw them at graduation. Far below, in the town of Bredene- identifying information when German In the summer of 1936, Patterson’s aan-Zee, a young police commissioner soldiers shooed him away. Though it mother saved up enough money to let named Henri Verhelst heard gunfire was often their practice to bury enemy him travel to Europe. Seeing fascism and looked up from his work, hoping to soldiers in mass, unmarked graves, firsthand made a profound impression, learn — as he later wrote to Patterson’s Verhelst persuaded them to let him claim one augmented when, during a stop in mother — “if the bullets and the cannon Patterson’s body. Germany, the Nazis jailed him overnight balls of the enemy would not mortally hit for disorderly conduct after a night of one of these large birds, which flew over Verhelst raced into the raucous drinking. A politics major, he our violated country.” The British planes waves, pulled Patterson’s wrote his thesis on “The Totalitarian carried “the men whose hearts were body from the wreckage, State: A Study of the Dictatorships in beating in unison with ours, friendly Italy, Germany, and Russia.” men, Allied aviators!” and was copying his Totalitarian governments, Patterson The dogfight ended quickly. Verhelst identifying information declared, “are standing denials of what watched as Patterson took fire and when German soldiers we seem to mean by liberal civilization.

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Calling All ideology ... a challenge to which so many In April 1941, he finally shipped out for are inclined to remain indifferent.” He England. His unit spent the next seven warned Americans not to be complacent. months escorting British convoys along Princeton “We can sit back and enjoy democracy, the North Sea coast. but if we make ourselves too comfortable In his last letter home, written just and fall asleep in the chair, if we become weeks before his death, he left his family Authors! too indifferent toward governmental with words that would live after him: “If affairs, the situation will soon be such this is where I get mine, up there where Reach 98,000 readers by that Fascism will become a necessity. ... it is cold and clear, on a battlefield where promoting your book in the It can happen here.” the dead don’t lie about and rot, where Princeton Bookshelf, What did Patterson really think? there is no mud and no stench, where A Guide to Princeton Authors. From this vantage point, it is hard to there is moonlight by night and stars, say. Hardy recalls that, like many and in the day the wizardry of intriguing This special advertising Americans, Patterson sometimes cloud formations, and a blue sky above is available for our spoke favorably about Hitler’s strong where a man is free and on his own and June, July and leadership in the first years after the the devil and Jerry take the hindmost; December issues, Nazis came to power. In a questionnaire if I get mine up there, there must be no for the Nassau Herald, Patterson listed his regrets. I would have it that way. ... I pity or time your ad to political affiliation as “Fascist tendency,” those, who living, live in fear of death.” match your book’s underlining the last word. publication date. Whatever his tendency may have Seventy-four years later, Fuller been, he did not wait for America to join Patterson lies in a small graveyard beside the war against fascism but dropped out the church of St. Richard in Bredene- Contact Colleen Finnegan of Harvard Law School and went to fight. aan-Zee. Henri Verhelst rescued the [email protected] Patterson, who loved race cars and bodies of 18 other RAF fliers that day, 609-258-4886 motorboats, had earned his pilot’s buried them all, and was able to contact license while in college. The British the families of 14 of them. He planted received scores of applications from flowers on their graves and tended them Americans eager to fight the Nazis, but until his own death in 1973. told them to wait until they could decide Fate veers in sharp directions. Had how to use them. Growing impatient, Verhelst not been so insistent, the Patterson traveled to Canada, spent Germans might have thrown Patterson’s weeks hectoring recruiting officers in body into a pit and his family never Montreal, and even volunteered for the would have known his fate. Had his Finnish and Norwegian services before plane crashed a few hundred yards the Canadians finally selected him for away, it might have disappeared into the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Empire the sea. Had he not been wounded, he Air Training Program. might have escaped. Fuller Patterson By joining the RCAF, Patterson died at 26; his roommate, John Hardy, Princeton (609) 921-0700 One Palmer Square committed himself in more ways than celebrated his 100th birthday in October. princeton.winberies.com one. Americans who fought for another Verhelst’s letter did reach Patterson’s country forfeited their U.S. citizenship mother — who also lost another son and (pilots who joined British forces before a son-in-law in the war — and the two America entered the war later had kept up a correspondence for decades. Find that citizenship restored). Joining the Patterson’s sister filled scrapbooks with RCAF, however, did not automatically clippings about her brother and visited Your confer Canadian or British citizenship. Belgium to thank Verhelst and see Patterson was literally a man without a the grave. Her granddaughter, Latanè Soulmate country at the time of his death. Crittenden Miller, has been in touch Heal your heart from breakup pain and The RCAF crammed two years’ with Verhelst’s daughter and has been remove your inner barriers to love through worth of training into just six months; trying to make Patterson’s story more the Conscious UncouplingTM process so you can call in your best relationship yet. Patterson had his wings by the end of widely known. Let Certified Conscious Uncoupling CoachTM October 1940 and served as an instructor “In his 26 years, he accomplished and alumna Anastasia Frank ’06 help you in Ontario. When the British Royal more than most of us will in our entire find true fulfillment in partnership and the Air Force formed a second American lives,” she says. “It’s a fascinating story. love you deeply deserve. [email protected] | 203 216 3032 Eagle Squadron comprising expatriate I hope my children will care about it as Americans, Patterson secured a transfer. much as I do.” By M.F.B.

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Edward D. Walen ’44 Ted died Dec. 1, 2015, in Hamden, Conn. After memorials graduating from Andover, at Princeton he majored in chemical engineering, played 150-pound football, and was in Cannon Club. Ted roomed with Jack Nunez, Charlie Gordon, and Hank Cooper. During World War II he was in the Air Corps Technical Training Corps and was assigned for 18 months to the China-Burma-India theater. PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths at paw.princeton.edu. Go to After the war, Ted returned to Princeton with “Web Exclusives” on PAW’s home page and click on the link “Recent Alumni his wife, Barbara Gahm, to earn his degree, then Deaths.” The list is updated with each new issue. went to Harvard Business School. The Class of 1939 B-29 based on Tinian Island, logging 23 Ted worked in the textile business with Richard R. Uhl ’39 bombing missions over Japan. After the war he Pacific Mills and Burlington Industries. In 1970 Dick died July 1, 2015, at his entered the real estate business in Casa Linda, he joined Exxon Mobil, where he was a senior home in Redding, Conn. Texas. Active politically in the greater Dallas sales executive, retiring in 1980. He was a He prepared at Lawrenceville community, Bruce was elected to Congress in grassroots advocate for the Southbury Training and graduated from Princeton 1954 from Dallas County’s 5th Congressional School and received commendations from the with high honors and a degree in District. After serving for 10 years, he relocated governor of Connecticut for his years of service music. Dick’s career in advertising as a musician to Florida and re-entered the real estate at the time of his retirement. Ted loved sailing and producer of radio and TV shows began business, but eventually returned to Texas in in his J/24 sailboat, the Tigress, up and down the immediately but was interrupted by four years 1976, where he worked in finance. After his Long Island Sound. He also loved Princeton in the Army. After being discharged as a captain, retirement, Bruce settled in Barefoot Bay in and returned for 13 reunions. he joined Sullivan Stauffer Colwell & Bayles as Florida. He was predeceased by Barbara, who died executive creative director. Bruce had two sons, David and Steven, in 1980. Ted is survived by his sons Peter, Eric, Dick was a trustee of the Westover School who predeceased him as did his second wife, and James; his longtime friend Susan Haran; five for Girls, a member of the board of the Aaron Priscilla. He is survived by his daughter, Jill; grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Copland Heritage Foundation, and an elder of stepson Robert Jones; stepdaughter Laura the Huguenot Memorial Presbyterian Church. Jones; seven grandchildren; and seven great- The Class of 1945 With lyricist Tom Adair, Dick wrote the song grandchildren. Jay D. Levinsohn ’45 “Everybody Every Payday,” the official song of Jay died Jan. 19, 2014, in Los the second War Loan Drive in 1943. His song The Class of 1944 Angeles. “A Romantic Guy I” was the theme song George H. Erker ’44 He prepared for Princeton of Robert Cummings’ first TV show. His George died Dec. 2, 2015, in St. at Andover, where he played bicentennial hymn, “We Who Love Our Land,” Louis, where he had lived all lacrosse. In college he majored won an award from the Hymn Society of his life. in economics and psychology and dined at Dial America. A graduate of St. Louis Lodge. Commissioned in the Army, Jay served Dick is survived by his wife, Emily Detwiler; Country Day School, he played baseball at with the Naval Transportation Corps and made daughters Laura, Emily, and Elizabeth ’82; and Princeton and was a member of Cottage and 20 trans-Atlantic crossings with convoys during three grandchildren. Triangle clubs. George majored in history and World War II. Our class secretary from 1981 to 2007 and roomed with Bill Tiernan. After graduation, he married Lissie Susan memorialist until 2010, Dick wrote 453 columns During World War II he was a Navy pilot and Klausner and joined his father’s firm, spending and 418 memorials, including all but the last served in the South Pacific. In 1943, he married his entire career in the men’s and boys’ clothing two sentences of this one. The class expresses Barbara Griesedieck. He became a stockbroker business in New York City. An excellent athlete, deep gratitude for his faithful chronicling of our in St. Louis after the war, a career that continued Jay competed nationally in tennis and horse lives and our deaths. for more than 50 years, up until the day he died. jumping for many years. George was very active in the St. Louis Jay and Lissie divorced, and in 1959 he The Class of 1940 community, particularly with St. Louis Country married Joyce Salton, who survives him. Jay and Bruce R. Alger ’40 Day School, which honored him for his support. Joyce had two children, Sharon and Ross, who Bruce died April 13, 2015, at He owned a home in the Bahamas, which was a survive him along with two grandchildren. Jay Bethesda Assisted Living vacation spot for years with his family. George will be remembered for his easygoing manner, Facility in Palm Bay, Fla. also owned a home in Boulder Junction, Wis., his keen sense of humor, and his optimistic view Born in Dallas, he grew up a location he visited when he was about 10. He of world events. The class expresses its sympathy in Webster Groves, Mo., and attended four major Princeton reunions. to the family. came to us from Webster Groves High School. In 1968 he married Patricia Jean Smith. She At Princeton, Bruce majored in philosophy, predeceased him in 1995. George is survived by Karl F. Rugart Jr. ’45 played football and ran track, and managed sons Charles, G. Stephen, and Barrett; daughter Karl died April 30, 2014. Quadrangle Club, where he lived junior and Barbara Baumstark; stepchildren Blakeslee He entered Princeton from senior years. Noyes, Christopher Noyes, and Constance Episcopal Academy and joined After a brief stint with RCA, he joined Fowler; 11 grandchildren; and two great- Terrace Club. Karl signed up the Army Air Corps and captained a Boeing grandchildren. with the Navy V-12 program and

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completed his Princeton studies uninterrupted. its investment committee for 32 years. throughout his life. A biology major, he was one of the first in our Ted’s key leadership helped popularize Most of Jack’s business career was as the class to earn his degree and graduated in 1944. local paddle tennis, and he and a partner won head of his own Lewis Sales Co., which sold In 1948, Karl earned a medical degree from the men’s doubles national title in 1968. In the industrial machinery and chrome plating. the University of Pennsylvania and began meantime, he served as ’46’s dedicated class Jack was a leader or member of numerous working as an ob/gyn. During his 50-year agent for decades. organizations, including the Milwaukee Art career he delivered nearly 7,000 babies. Karl At St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in New Museum, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, spent nearly his entire career at Pennsylvania Canaan, Ted helped run the May Fair and and the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. He was Hospital, retiring in 1998. Strawberry Festival each year. He was baptized a former president of the local Princeton Karl was devoted to his family, his with full immersion at age 88 at Covenant Alumni Association and served on its schools profession, his community, and our Princeton Fellowship Baptist Church in his winter committee. He was a board member and class, which he staunchly supported along with hometown of Stuart, Fla. board chairman of the Piney Woods Country his wife, Patsy, and daughter Cynthia, our class Ted’s death Oct. 12, 2014, left his wife, Anita Life School in Jacksonville, Miss., a college- treasurer. He gave both financial support and Carter Winpenny; daughter Belinda Paris; five preparatory boarding school for African physical energy to innumerable and varied grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. American children. community organizations. One of his many The class extends warmest condolences and Jack is survived by Phoebe, his wife of 65 gifts to Princeton was a significant founding thanks for his enthusiastic life to them all. years; five children; 12 grandchildren; and two contribution to its chapter of Engineers great-grandchildren. Without Borders. Karl’s life and career cannot The Class of 1947 be summarized in 200 words, but we will Joseph K. Gordon ’47 William F. Martin ’48 devote a column to him that will provide more Joe, a highly respected Bill was born May 27, 1926, in impressive details. attorney, banking executive, New York City and died Jan. Patsy predeceased Karl. He is survived by and philanthropist died 29, 2015. He noted in our 50th- children Cynthia, Karl III ’78, Conrad, and Eric; Oct. 5, 2015. reunion book that as an active and seven grandchildren. The class expresses A graduate of Episcopal Roman Catholic layman, both its sympathy to them all. Academy, he did not begin his Princeton career in college and after, he “assisted and organized until he had served three years in the Navy, credit unions, cooperatives, and [other] The Class of 1946 including seven months on a light cruiser. After community organizations.” Richard Gardiner Oellers ’46 his service, Joe enrolled at Princeton, where he At Princeton he majored in politics, Dick was president of the Dallas (Texas) Male earned an English degree in 1947. He received a graduating in 1949. Bill had been mentored by Chorus, mediator for consumer affairs in the law degree from the University of Pennsylvania the eminent philosopher Jacques Maritain, then state of Maine attorney general’s office, and in 1951. at the Institute for Advanced Study, and wrote manager of eastern area operations of Motorola’s Joe was a revered corporate attorney with his thesis on Maritain’s political philosophy. communications and electronic division for 25 Ballard Spahr and then with Montgomery, Bill married Beverly Byrne, and the family years. He then retired to Maine and spent many McCracken, Walker & Rhoads from 1990 until spent 20 years in Europe, returning to the years there fundraising for the Westminster his death. For 31 years, he served as chief counsel United States in 1996. He then started a firm School and Princeton. These were a few of Dick’s and executive vice president of the Philadelphia providing an information service about literary accomplishments following his service as a Navy National Bank and its successor CoreStates agents and their clients in New York. aviation cadet, in which he learned to love flying Bank, where he is credited with creating the He is survived by Beverly, seven children, and airplanes. bank’s first credit card and its participation in and 12 grandchildren. We have been unable to Dick’s large family admired his quick wit, the First Nationwide credit-card program (now make contact with the Martin family to obtain well-tuned ear, love of classical music and big- known as “Visa”). A longtime emeritus member any further information about Bill’s seemingly band jazz, and devotion to antique Buick cars of its board of trustees, Joe served as chairman varied and productive career and life. manufactured between 1936 and 1938. of the Lankenau Medical Center. He was His death Oct. 10, 2014, left his wife, Rita; involved in the formation of Main Line Health Gilman Perkins ’48 daughters Wendy Fulmer, Suzanne Naughton, and served as its president and CEO. Gilman died April 17, 2015, in Pittsford, N.Y., at and Elizabeth Oellers; son Richard Jr.; 23 Most central to Joe’s life was his beloved wife age 88. grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. of 56 years, Ray, who died on the same date He was a graduate of St. Paul’s School and The class expresses sincerest condolences to as Joe four years earlier. The class extends its served briefly in the 82nd Airborne Division just them all and thanks for this classmate’s busy deepest sympathy to their children Sarah, Leila, after World War II. He graduated from Princeton and well-rounded life. Hunter ’84, and Scott; and six grandchildren. in 1950. For most of his business career he was an executive at the family’s industrial firm, Union Edward Leslie Winpenny Jr. ’46 The Class of 1948 Steel Chest Corp. in LeRoy, N.Y.; later he worked Ted often said he was proud that he “brought John D. Lewis ’48 in management at two other companies in the Wall Street to Main Street.” Tired of commuting Jack died Dec. 6, 2015, in Rochester, N.Y., area. Gilman was a longtime from New Canaan, Conn., to lower Manhattan, Milwaukee at age 88. supporter of the Rochester School for the he convinced Merrill Lynch to open one of the He grew up in Evanston, Deaf, an active member of Episcopal churches brokerage’s first suburban offices in his town and Ill., and went to New Trier in Rochester and in Kennebunkport, Maine, was a top producer there for 65 years. High School along with our and a former president of the County Club of Ted was instrumental in establishing the classmate David Spoehr. After Navy service, Rochester. New Canaan Community Foundation, which Jack graduated in January 1949 with a degree He was predeceased by Rebecca, his wife of helps fund Connecticut-area charitable and in mechanical engineering. He played sports, 61 years. Gilman is survived by his daughters, civic groups. Serving on the New Canaan was a mountain climber, and sang in a number Rebecca and Cornelia; son Gilman; eight Historical Society’s board of governors, he led of choirs, glee clubs, and other vocal groups grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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Walter B. Roberts Jr. ’48 A journalist and writer, Pete worked for chaired the department of general surgery for Walt was born in New York City in 1926 and The Vineyard Gazette, The New Yorker, Life 30 years. died Nov. 14, 2015, in Plymouth, Minn., at magazine, Seattle magazine, and two Los He married Barbara Louise Livezey in age 89. His father, Walter Roberts Sr., was Angeles papers. As the television critic for the 1955 and they had three children, Elizabeth in the Class of 1915, and his late brother-in- Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1986, he won Anne, Frank III, and Peter. Barbara died in law, Dudley Woodbridge, was the longtime a major free-speech case in the California 2011, and Frank later married Carolyn Boykin, secretary for the Class of 1944. Supreme Court. He described himself as “a who survives him, with his children and six Walt started at Princeton after participating self-professed liberal” in our 50-year directory, grandchildren. To all of them, we offer our in the Navy V-12 program and graduated and he continued to write occasional freelance deep condolences. in 1949 with a degree in history. Most of pieces after his retirement. his business career was in advertising and After the death of his first wife, Jane Cole, Norman A. Pedersen ’49 marketing at J. Walter Thompson and at Pete married Suzanne Belcher Platt in 1982. Norm died June 9, 2015, in other firms. Walt managed the promotion She survives him, as do three sons, Robert, Sarasota, Fla. and marketing of products including Jeffrey and John. Pete was predeceased by He was a history major and Stripe toothpaste, Alka-Seltzer Plus, Mrs. Jane and his oldest son, Cole ’75. We offer our a member of Terrace and the Butterworth’s Syrup, and Flintstones vitamins. sincere sympathy and deep condolences to Rugby Club at Princeton. Norm We remember vividly and gratefully them all. spent 15 years teaching at the Nichols School in Walt’s survey reports on our careers, personal Buffalo, and then was appointed headmaster of histories, and our views of our lives and times, Forrest O. Burk ’49 Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn., where included in his report in our 50th reunion book. Forrest died June 28, 2015, in he stayed for 19 years. After his retirement, Norm Walt was predeceased by his second wife, Florida, having lived there for and his wife, Isabel (“Ish”), spent winters in Rumohr Gamm. He is survived by his sister, his entire life. Florida and summers in Chautauqua, N.Y., where Polly Woodbridge; sons Walter III and Kirby; He came to Princeton Ish and her family had lived for many years. daughter Susan; and numerous cousins, some in September 1946 from Classmate Herb Spencer has especially of whom had Princeton connections. the Navy’s V-12 program and majored in warm memories of an unexpected reunion psychology, graduating with honors. While on with Norm, Ish, and their daughter, Selina. In Alfred F. Shine ’48 campus, he took his meals at Prospect, was a 1956, the three Pedersens became trapped on Al was born in 1921 in Jersey member of the radio and electronics club, and their way to a family Thanksgiving in a fierce City, N.J., and died Nov. 7, 2015, was elected to Sigma Xi. Lake Erie blizzard and ended up spending in Stuart, Fla. Forrest returned to Florida after his the holiday with the Spencers. Not only He served in the Marines graduation and lived in Cape Canaveral. He were the two Spencer boys and Selina happy during World War II, was was involved in the field of marine technology, companions, both fathers were classmates, stationed in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere writing in our 50th-reunion yearbook “it and it turned out that Ish and Charlotte were in the Pacific, and was wounded in combat. wasn’t exactly a career, it just happened.” Smith classmates as well. It was a happy ending After he graduated from Princeton in 1947, Interestingly enough, he became involved with to a disastrous trip for the Pedersens and the Al was called again to active duty, first in Project Apollo in the 1960s as a human-factors Spencers. Korea, and then for a year in the U.S. military’s specialist, checking spacecraft equipment. At Norm is survived by Ish; children Selina P. occupation of Japan. Meanwhile, he married the time of his death, he had been an amateur Johnson ’76, Norman III, and Laura; and six Mary in 1949, and they were together until her radio operator for more than 50 years. grandchildren. We extend our affectionate death in 1995. Forrest’s wife, Alice, died in 2014. He greetings and condolences to them all. Al’s entire business career was with also listed three daughters in the book, Prudential Insurance Co., first in the Chicago Barbara, Carolyn ’76, and Nancy; and seven Russell T. Stern ’49 area, and then at the company headquarters in grandchildren. We offer our condolences to all Russ Stern died June 27, 2015, New Jersey. After he retired in 1982, the family of them. in Naples, Fla., his second moved from Short Hills, N.J., to Florida, where home. Al met his second wife, Dottie. Francis M. Clarke ’49 Born in Chicago, he He is survived by Dottie; three children from Frank died June 27, 2015, one attended the North Shore his first marriage, Jacqueline Morgan, Ann month after his 87th birthday. Country Day School, graduated from Exeter, Shine, and Charles; six grandchildren; and two The son of a physician, he had and came to Princeton in 1945. While on great-grandchildren. spent almost his entire life in campus, Russ was a member of Tower, sang New Jersey. Aside from his time in the choir and the Glee Club, and played JV The Class of 1949 at the Hill School and his medical-school years baseball and basketball. Peter D. Bunzel ’49 at Penn, he was a true New Jerseyan. An economics major, he joined Merrill Pete died July 20, 2015, in Los At Princeton, Frank majored in history, Lynch after graduation. After two years Angeles, one month after his played golf, and was a member of Key and Seal. of training in New York, Russ returned to 88th birthday. His medical training at Penn was interrupted Chicago, where he stayed with the firm until He came to Princeton by active duty in the Navy Medical Corps from 1981, ending up as marketing director. He from Kent, and although his 1952 to 1954, and he continued to serve in the joined Smith Barney for six years, then worked undergraduate career was interrupted by 16 Naval Reserve afterward, retiring in 1975 with at the Thurston Group for 11 years as chairman months in the Army, he majored in history and the rank of captain. of the board. graduated with high honors. Pete belonged His career brought him back to New Jersey, Russ belonged to many clubs and business to Charter Club, was chairman of The Daily where he practiced general surgery for more organizations in Chicago and New York. Princetonian, and was a member of the than five decades, and was on staff at St. Peter’s He loved singing, music, travel, badminton, undergraduate council and the Liberal Union. University Hospital in New Brunswick. Frank and golf, and was known to brighten any

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room he entered. and produced an off-Broadway musical, The between there and Lewisburg. Russ married Carol Jackson, a friend since Athenian Touch, for which he wrote the lyrics. At his funeral, Fred received full military his days as a student in Chicago, who survives Dave never married and is survived by his honors for his service. He is survived by him along with three children, Russell III, brother, William. Rose Marie, his wife of 49 years; children William, and Patricia; and three grandsons. Fred III, Jean, Elizabeth, Joe, Janet, Richard, Their son Darryl predeceased Russ. To them Freeman F. Gosden Jr. and Christine ’92; 17 grandchildren; and his all, the class extends sincere sympathy. ’50 Freeman died Oct. 26, 2015, brothers, Bill ’50 and Peter. at home in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Class of 1950 Though raised in California, The Class of 1952 William D. Browne ’50 he graduated from Indiana’s Frederic B. Ingram ’52 Bill, a lifelong resident of Culver Military Academy. A Fritz prepared for Princeton Milwaukee, died peacefully member of Dial and an ROTC cadet major, at Exeter, studied basic Oct. 5, 2015. “Gos,” as he was known to some of us, majored engineering, ate at Tower, He graduated from in economics. and was a member of the golf Milwaukee University School He was employed in the West Texas oil fields team (a lifelong interest). His and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946 aboard before and after serving as a first lieutenant roommates were Ed Theurkauf, Bryce Russell, a destroyer in the South Pacific. At Princeton, Bill in the Army Psychological Branch. After George Vaught, Bob Cohill, Bob Ix, and Peter majored in history, was manager of the varsity contracting polio in Texas, Freeman returned to Bunce. He went on to pursue a career in the oil tennis team, and belonged to Charter. California for rehabilitation. There he started as business, a family endeavor. He spent 10 years working as a salesman a mailboy for Young & Rubicam and worked for He died Aug. 26, 2015, leaving his wife, before founding the Browne Packaging Co. Bill several other agencies before eventually joining Ingrid; and children Frederick Jr., Eileen, and sold the company in 1985 and joined Marquette Foote, Cone & Belding, from which he retired as Philip, to whom the class sends good wishes. Electronics, where he directed the charitable chairman after guiding it from the 16th- to third- trust until his retirement. Bill was an active largest direct marketer in the world. The Class of 1954 volunteer in many Milwaukee civic groups. Among his career highlights were creation Kai A. Nebel ’54 He founded a ski program that taught and of the original frequent-flyer program for Kai died Dec. 1, 2014. provided specialized skis that enabled people United Airlines; founding Me Books, which Born in Geneva, N.Y., he with disabilities to ski on nearby slopes. Bill sold over a million personalized children’s attended Geneva High School. also was a state-ranked tennis player. books; and teaching direct marketing at more At Princeton, Kai majored in Family reunions were a big event for him, than 120 colleges and corporations. He said in history, joined Campus Club, especially an annual ski trip to Vail; spring our 50th-reunion book that his biggest missed and was active in many organizations. His vacations in Destin, Fla.; and sojourns to a opportunity was declining a request to market special interests included ornithology and summer cottage on Beaver Lake. Painting was a a computer communications system four Latin America. hobby he enjoyed later in his life. professors had developed, called the Internet. Following Princeton, he earned a law degree Both Bill and his wife, Nancy, had been His hobbies were bicycling, model trains, at Harvard. Kai’s 50-year career in law included married before, so their marriage 49 years ago and bridge. a dedication to rebuilding cities. He was the brought his five children and her four to the He is survived by two daughters, Lee and principal author of legislation called “tax- family. He is survived by Nancy, eight of the Jill; two grandchildren; and a sister, Virginia. increment financing,” which enabled cities to children, 22 grandchildren, and two great- Dorothy, his wife of 60 years, predeceased him. finance current projects out of projected future grandchildren. income. One project included the development Fredric E. Schluter Jr. of the Chicago North Loop and renovation of David M. Eddy ’50 ’50 The class lost one of its The Chicago Theatre, a landmark building. Dave died Sept. 21, 2015, in most enthusiastic and loyal Kai spearheaded a pro bono coalition that Louisville. members when Fred died Nov. prevented the demolition of Skokie School in He was born in Hartford, 13, 2015, of a heart attack. Winnetka, Ill. Conn., where he graduated He graduated from Exeter Kai was predeceased by his wife, Maria. The from the Kingswood School. in 1943 and served on submarines in the Navy class extends condolences to their children At Princeton, Dave was an English major, before entering Princeton. In college, Fred Natalia, Silvia, Isabella, and Erik. participated in Theatre Intime, and belonged majored in economics and belonged to Cannon to Terrace Club. He also worked at WPRU and Club. He played hockey and 150-pound Richard C. Smith ’54 wrote for the Nassau Lit. football for two years and baseball for four. Richard died Nov. 30, 2015, After serving in the Army Signal Corps in One of his favorite stories about his Princeton after a brief illness. California for two years, he settled in New years described in great detail how he stole Born in Honolulu, he York City, where he used his writing acumen the clapper his freshman year. Fred took great attended Punahou High School. at NBC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. pride in never missing a reunion in 65 years. At Princeton, he majored in Dave then worked for the United Presbyterian Fred was a longtime resident of Lewisburg, economics, was a member of Colonial Club, Church U.S.A., where he edited publications Pa. For most of his career, he owned and played varsity baseball, and was in the NROTC. for more than 20 years. He moved to Louisville operated his own steel-manufacturing After graduation, Richard spent three years when the church relocated its headquarters to company, Keystone Forging Co. of aboard two Navy destroyers in the Pacific. that city, and retired there. Northumberland, Pa. Before his retirement, Dick subsequently had a 37-year career Dave loved animals and was an avid Fred was active in the Lewisburg Lions in commercial banking for the Security gardener, which was reflected at his homes Club and the West Branch Manufacturers Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and in Brooklyn Heights and Louisville. Among Association. After retiring, he became a Santa Barbara. In 1988, he joined the Santa other undertakings, he published choral works resident of Naples, Fla., and split his time Barbara Bank and Trust, working there

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until his retirement in 1994. During his long to New York City. MFA in music in 1959. career, he served on the boards of many civic Fred spent his retirement years in Palm A three-time Rome Prize winner in musical organizations. Beach, Fla., and later, Bonita Springs, Fla., where composition, John spent 11 years in Rome Dick and Larimore (“Larie”), his wife of 60 he was active in the community — especially at the American Academy. He also was the years, traveled extensively and were regular with the Princeton Club of Southwest Florida — recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and attendees at all of our class reunions, mini- in addition to other various charities. a MacArthur fellowship. John explored his reunions, and special activities. In his role with the Princeton Club of own ideas about music in all genres, writing The class is honored by his service to our Southwest Florida, he served as membership microtonally and for electronic synthesizers, country and extends condolences to his wife, chair, setting an all-time record for club the Synket, and the Moog synthesizer. Larie; sons Rick and Doug; daughter Judy; and membership, and was still serving on the board He composed more than 20 operas, some of four grandchildren. of directors at the time of his death. In 2008, which required reduced numbers of performers, he organized and managed the inaugural called pocket operas. He taught at Indiana The Class of 1955 appearance of the Princeton Triangle Club in University and at the University of Chicago, and R. James Macaleer ’55 Naples, Fla., where he sold out the house for recently lived in New Jersey near Manhattan. Born Jan. 29, 1934, to Edna their performance. The class offers condolences to his wife, Green and William Macaleer, Fred leaves behind his wife, Rhonda; four Nelda, and their children, Estela and Julian. Jim died Oct. 29, 2015, of cancer. children; four grandchildren; and two sisters. Coming from Lansdowne He will be most remembered for his fun-loving The Class of 1958 (Pa.) High School, Jim personality, musical talents, and charitable spirit. Raymond B. Huttig ’58 graduated cum laude from Princeton. He Ray died July 24, 2015, at majored in chemical engineering, joined Tiger The Class of 1957 Coming Home Hospice in San Inn, and roomed at 22 Blair Hall with Donald James H. Case III ’57 Francisco. Greene, Harold Haabestad Jr., and William Jim, the former associate He came to us from Van Alstyne. commissioner of the Thornton High School in Jim’s 11 years as a fighter pilot in the Navy Massachusetts Department of Chicago. At Princeton, Ray took his meals at were complemented by his service as a director Education, died Nov. 9, 2015, at Key and Seal, where he served as secretary for numerous organizations, including the local his home in Clemmons, N.C. and chairman of the bicker committee. watershed organization, the Brandywine Valley Jim majored in English, joined Colonial Club Ray majored in politics and rowed on the Association; the regional land trust, Natural and was business manager of the Glee Club. 150-pound crew. His senior-year roommates Lands Trust; and the Philadelphia Academy of After earning a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969, were Jeff Brill, Harry Miner, and John Sutter. Natural Sciences, which he chaired for almost Jim was committed to education throughout After college and five years with the six years. his professional life. He taught high school Navy, Ray earned an MBA at the University Co-founder of Shared Medical Systems, a English in Winchester and Brookline, Mass., of Chicago. He joined the Bank of America leading provider of financial, administrative, trained teachers at Harvard Graduate School and worked in various divisions, including and patient-care automated information- of Education, and was director of the Institute corporate finance, leasing, and capital markets. processing systems, Jim retired in 1995 as for Learning and Teaching at the University He also spent some time in Singapore. After CEO and in 2000 as non-executive chairman. of Massachusetts in Boston. He served as the retiring in 2000, Ray settled in the Bay Area. He received many awards, including the Boy commonwealth’s director of teacher Ray is survived by his nephews, Craig and Scout Distinguished Eagle and Silver Beaver certification before rising to the associate Clark Roberts, who are sons of his late sister, awards, Entrepreneurial Excellence award from commissioner position. Later, Jim was dean Grace. To them, the class extends sympathy. Delaware Valley Venture Group, Distinguished of the Empire State College campus in Entrepreneur award from Muhlenberg College, Hartsdale, N.Y. The Class of 1960 and an honorary degree from Drexel University. He was well known for his love of camping Clifford K. Thompson Jr. During rare escapes from the boardroom, and literature and for his beer waffles. Jim’s ’60 Cliff died Nov. 21, 2014, Jim loved freshwater fishing, tennis, and bird friends and family appreciated his independent, in La Jolla, Calif. He had been watching with his wife, Lola Jean, in more than helpful nature and his sense of humor. afflicted in recent years with 30 countries on seven continents. Jim is survived by his wife, Cindri; children Parkinson’s disease, which Jim is survived by Lola Jean, sons David Peter, Matthew, Jessica, Emily, and Joanna; and restricted his range of and Douglas, daughter Cynthia, and two 13 grandchildren. activities and prevented him from attending grandchildren. our 50th reunion. John C. Eaton ’57 *59 Cliff majored in history, ate at Cannon The Class of 1956 John died Dec. 2, 2015, in Club, played interclub sports, and was an Frederick W. Prichard Jr. New York City, less than six NROTC midshipman. After Princeton, he ’56 Fred died May 15, 2015. weeks after attending an 80th served three years in the Navy, then moved on The son of Frederick Walker birthday retrospective concert to law school at the University of California, Prichard and Elizabeth Smith of his music in New York. Berkeley during the turbulent years of the free- Prichard, he was born in He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and was speech movement. Cliff joined the office of the Charleston, W.Va., in 1934. Fred successful as a pianist and composer from an California attorney general, where he spent his graduated from the Lawrenceville School in early age. John majored in music at Princeton working career and eventually rose to become 1952 and from Princeton in 1956 with a degree and was a member of Cannon Club. He formed deputy attorney general. Career highlights in mechanical engineering. From 1956 to 1959 a jazz group, the Princetonians, which achieved included arguing before the Supreme Court (and he served in the Army and in 1959 began his national recognition for its recordings through winning his first case) and prosecuting Angela career at Union Carbide, which spanned Columbia Records. John continued on at Davis (he lost, but wrote that “the important several decades and took him from Charleston Princeton as a graduate student, earning an thing is being able to say you were there”).

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Cliff married his college sweetheart, Hugh C. McLean ’62 in philosophy and religion and graduated with Ingeborg Hermanus, in 1961. She and their Hugh died Oct. 25, 2015. honors. A member of Cottage Club, Cheney daughter, Kimberly, survive him. The class He came to us from the Nichols School, lettered in varsity crew. He served in the extends sympathy to them both. played freshman tennis and squash, and dined Marine Corps Reserve from 1960 to 1966. at Key and Seal. Hugh left Princeton after his Cheney graduated from Louisiana State The Class of 1961 junior year, abandoning biology. Switching University’s law school in 1969, where he Howard A. Olgin ’61 to English at the University of Buffalo, he was a member of the Law Review and Order Howie died Jan. 28, 2015, at graduated near the top of his class. of the Coif. He went on to have a long and home in Cathedral City, Calif. While serving in the Army at Fort Dix in distinguished career in the law as a revered law Born in Jersey City, N.J., he 1963, he attended Princeton football games and professor, law school dean, state and federal came to Princeton from Henry visited the campus. Over time, Hugh became prosecutor, state court judge, general counsel Snyder High School. In college a loyal alumnus, attending many functions to a Louisiana governor, and executive director Howie majored in philosophy, was an officer of and reunions. After joining Marine Midland of the Judicial Council. In 2015, Cheney the University Press Club, wrote for PAW, and Bank in Buffalo (now HSBC), Hugh earned an became acting co-dean of the LSU Law School, was a contributor to the Nassau Lit. He took his MBA from Canisius College. He chaired the where he was described as the “heart and soul” meals at Terrace Club and roomed senior year Princeton Club of Western New York and was of the law school community. with Mike Horn and Ernie Smith. on Buffalo’s schools committee. In addition, he Cheney was a true giant of the legal After Princeton, having considered writing was on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt profession in Louisiana. With a twinkle in his and medicine as career options, Howie went to Inaugural Site Foundation and was a past eye and an entertaining story at the ready, medical school at Penn and became a board- president of the Buffalo Tennis/Squash Club. Cheney taught and mentored generations of certified general surgeon and family-practice Hugh retired from HSBC in 2003. lawyers and judges over his illustrious tenure of physician while writing and publishing seven He married Margaret (“Peppy”) Spitzmiller more than 40 years on LSU’s faculty. medical thrillers. His love of writing was a in 1964. Hugh stayed active playing squash He is survived by his wife, Mary, also an lifelong passion. Later in his medical career, and tennis. Additionally, the family enjoyed attorney; sons Terrell and Allen; and three Howie engaged in laparoscopic surgery and summers on the north shore of Lake Erie. Well- grandchildren; to whom the class sends sincere was surgical adviser to Ethicon Inc. liked, Hugh had many friends. condolences. An extended tribute to Cheney We did not see much of Howie over the The class extends its condolences to Peppy, can be found on our class website at www. years, but he did attend one reunion some years and their daughters, Patty, Anne, Ellen, and princeton1964.com. ago, and we hear from Mike Horn and Tom Caroline. Sansone (also a medical school classmate) that The Class of 1966 there are many great stories to be told. The Class of 1964 Paul E. Hudak ’66 Howie is survived by his daughter, Aviva, Saud al-Faisal ’64 Paul died July 27, 2015. who lives in Coachella, Calif. Saud died July 9, 2015, at age 75. He was born He came to Princeton in the Saudi city of Ta’if and came to Princeton from Glendale, Calif., after The Class of 1962 from the Hun School, where he honed the graduating from Riverside Joseph E. Irenas ’62 soccer skills he brought to Princeton. High School, where he played Joe died Oct. 16, 2015, after a fall. He was the world’s longest-serving foreign varsity football and served as senior class He came to us from the Pingry School minister and was a central figure in all of the president. At Princeton he majored in basic and was a scholarship student there and at monumental changes in the Middle East from the engineering and was a member of Elm Club Princeton. Active in WPRB, he dined at Campus ’70s to the present. He helped mediate the end to and the Aquinas Foundation. Club and majored in the Woodrow Wilson a civil war in Lebanon and dealt with Palestinian After graduation, Paul earned an MBA School. Joe roomed with Doug Nadeau, Jack uprisings against Israel in 1987 and 2000. in quantitative methods at the University of Myers, Bob Medina, and Don McCulloch. Gerry Parsky, a classmate who played soccer Michigan and completed courses at American After earning a law degree from Harvard, with Saud and worked closely with him later in University. He served in the Navy from 1969 to he clerked for Justice Haydn Proctor and then life as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department 1974, earning the Navy Achievement Award and joined McCarter & English, where he became of Treasury, wrote: “Saud was instrumental the Vietnam Service Award and rising to the rank a partner. Loyal to our class, he was our in the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the of lieutenant. Paul pursued a career in business president from 1987 to 1992 and generously United States. He was often referred to as the consulting, serving as a senior associate and hosted reunion-planning meetings at the quiet diplomat who was respected by everyone in consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton and residing Nassau Club, where he also enjoyed his weekly the U.S. government.” Gerry also noted that he in Fairfax, Va., and Rockville, Md. poker games. had dinner with Saud in Los Angeles two weeks Paul loved the sea and was devoted to his Joe became a federal judge in 1992 and was before he died and much of the discussion was family. A highlight of each year was the family’s still sitting on the bench of the District Court about Princeton. “Saud regretted that he did not beach vacation. He determinedly coached his of New Jersey’s Camden vicinage when his study harder, but was grateful for the first-rate children in soccer, learning the sport by accident occurred. Fellow judges said that he education he received,” Gerry said. watching videotapes. loved both large and small cases. They also Saud is survived by three sons, including Paul is survived by his wife, Virginia; children marveled at his work ethic in spite of undergoing Khalid al-Faisal ’94, and three daughters. Emily, Brian, and Kevin; and grandchildren dialysis three times a week. Joe had a special Emerson and Eva. The class extends its heartfelt relationship with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Cheney C. Joseph Jr. ’64 sympathy to them. Sotomayor ’76, who came over to greet Joe and Cheney died Dec. 18, 2015, his wife, Nancy, on Alumni Day in 2014. after a short illness. He was a Frederick G. Schonenberg Jr. ’66 The class offers its condolences to Nancy, proud, lifelong resident of his Fred died Dec. 10, 2015, at home in his wife since 1962 and friend since sixth grade; beloved Baton Rouge, La. Wynantskill, N.Y. children Amy and Ted; and his grandchildren. At Princeton, he majored Born in Mississippi, Fred graduated from

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Baldwin (N.Y.) Senior High from Highland High School in Salt Lake City, easygoing New Jersey native School. At Princeton he majored where he played guard and catcher on the and a loyal alumnus and in history and belonged to school’s championship teams and was an Eagle member of our class. Elm Club, where he served Scout. Dennis played oboe and bassoon in the Rick came to Princeton as treasurer. Fred sang in Princeton Orchestra and had a continuing love from the Pingry School and the Chapel Choir and played for symphony and opera. He served a 30-month Plainfield High School, where interclub sports. mission to Switzerland from 1962 to 1965. At his legacy lives on through the Richard Lang After Princeton, he earned a law degree from Princeton, Dennis majored in biology, roomed Outstanding Graduate Award. At Princeton, Columbia Law School. During the Vietnam War, for four years with Keith Hilbig, and was a he played football and squash and was a Fred served in the Marine Corps, working in the member of Terrace. member of Cottage Club, serving as its social judge advocate general’s corps and rising to the In the spring of 1967, Dennis married Judith chairman his senior year. He was one of a rank of captain. Benson Gustafson and then attended medical handful of our class with a perfect record of Fred practiced law in Wynantskill. He was school at Columbia. After an internship in San Annual Giving. an avid golfer and was president and a longtime Francisco, he completed a four-year residency Following graduation, Rick began a career member of the Frear Park Senior Golf Club. He in orthopedic surgery at UC, San Francisco and in banking with United National Bank in was a member of the Wynantskill Kiwanis Club two years as an Army major. For the next 22 Netherwood, N.J., and then Smith Barney, and sang with the Uncle Sam Chorus. years, Dennis loved his career as an orthopedic where he was a managing director at the time Fred is survived by his wife, Midge; and surgeon at John Muir Hospital and as a partner of his retirement. Rick was a passionate and children Fred, Kathy, Lisa, and Cori. The class at Diablo Orthopedic Medical Group in Walnut accomplished golfer, trap shooter, and extends its deepest sympathy to them and to Creek, Calif. Dennis is remembered for his racquets player. Fred’s extended family. quiet devotion to duty and his kindness to He is survived by his loving wife, Barbara others. Betner Lang; son Richard Lang III; daughter The Class of 1967 He is survived by Judy; children Stuart, Morgan Lang Hutter and her husband, Ian John I. Boslough ’67 Andrew, Joanna, Eric Blair, Carl, Cathryn, and Hutter; mother Lois Lippincott Lang; and his John died May 4, 2010, of Susan; and 14 grandchildren. sister, Suzanne Lippincott Lang. The class cancer at home in Snowmass extends its condolences to his family. Village, Colo. Ricardo L. Sicre ’67 John entered Princeton with Ricardo died June 25, 2011, after suffering a Michael Morgan ’72 the Class of 1964, dropped out heart attack while visiting friends in Spain, Mike died Feb. 6, 2015, after a for a few years and then joined the Class of where he spent his childhood.. battle with brain cancer. 1967. He was a member of Colonial, ran track, At Princeton, he joined Ivy, majored in Mike was from Cleveland and wrote for The Daily Princetonian. English, was a star on the soccer team, and but attended St. Paul’s School, After graduation, John attended Columbia made many lifelong friends. and was one of several Law School, but ultimately decided to move After earning an MBA at Cornell, Ricardo graduates of St. Paul’s to enter our class. Mike back to Colorado and become a journalist. He worked at Morgan Guaranty, which brought carried a love of music from high school to started as the sports editor of the Mountain Mail him back to Spain and launched a 30-year Princeton and majored in politics. He roomed in Salida, Colo., and later became editor. John banking career in Europe at Banca Catalana, with Jeff Hoagland, Ben Maguire, Jonathan returned to Denver with the Associated Press Saudi International Bank, and Nomura. McCall, and Jim Robinson sophomore year. and then joined the Denver Post as a reporter, London became his center of operations, but Mike was a member of Ivy and a close friend of where he won many awards for his stories, his work took him around the globe. Stephanie Fowler ’73. which were often science-related. John moved Ricardo married three times and fathered Following graduation from Case Western to Washington, D.C., to head the Denver Post’s three children. The loss of his eldest son two Reserve School of Law in 1979, he joined the bureau in the late ‘70s and later left to become years before his own death affected him deeply firm of Bryan Cave in St. Louis, a career that science editor at U.S. News & World Report. and gave him a sense of the frailty of life and would take him to offices in Riyadh, Saudi John wrote five books about science the need to take advantage of all it offered. Arabia; London; and Hong Kong. From 1996 issues and contributed articles to numerous His father’s early death left Ricardo with on, he worked in private practice and at publications, including The Washington Post an unexpected inheritance that led to an early several firms and was serving as counsel to and National Geographic. John wrote Stephen retirement and allowed him to travel and fulfill Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale when he died. Hawking’s Universe, a 1985 biography of the his never-ending curiosity and to spend a good Mike was very active in local and regional famed scientist that was an international part of the year in Gstaad. alumni affairs. bestseller and was translated into 10 languages. Ricardo had a distinct laugh — a deep He is survived by his wife, Mary Armstrong He also co-authored The Very First Light — The chuckle. He is remembered as a wonderful Goodyear Morgan; sister Martha Estes; True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to friend: kind, affectionate, and generous with brother Dixon; daughter Phoebe; son Nicholas; the Dawn of the Universe with astrophysicist and his time and hospitality. His life included stepdaughters Cameron Goodyear and Dana Nobel Prize-winner John C. Mather. tragedy as well as good fortune, but all who Goodyear; four grandchildren; and his adored John is survived by his wife, Susan; and knew him appreciated his humanity, dignity, West Highland White Terrier, Isabel. daughters Jill and Sophie. and love for family and friends. The class extends sympathy to Mike’s family.

Dennis H. Gustafson ’67 The Class of 1972 Graduate Alumni Dennis died June 27, 2010, at Richard W. Lang Jr. ’72 Philip S. Collins *54 home in Alamo, Calif., from Richard died Oct. 8, 2015, at Overlook Hospital Philip Collins, architect and retired managing the effects of early-onset in Summit, N.J., surrounded by his loving partner of CUH2A Inc., died of multiple Alzheimer’s disease. family. He was 65. Known to many of us systems atrophy, Oct. 29, 2015. He was 86. He came to Princeton as “Rick” or “Langer,” he was a congenial, Born in 1929, Collins graduated from

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Williams College before earning an MFA was a pioneer in the application of artificial Nicolaos D. Epiotis *72 degree in architecture from Princeton in intelligence and parallel computing to symbolic Nicolaos Epiotis, professor emeritus of 1954. He then entered New Jersey’s open computation, and numerical stimulation of chemistry at the University of Washington, competition to design the state’s Tercentenary fluid flows. died July 17, 2015, at the age of 71. Pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair at Flushing Peskin retired to Vermont in 1997. There he Born in Athens, Greece, in 1944, Epiotis Meadows, N.Y. enjoyed the regular pursuit of two of his many attended Athens College, an American school. He won for his design that was to be interests, playing the cello and sledding with a After graduating, he attended Ripon College in constructed adjacent to the Fair’s Unisphere. small team of Siberian huskies. Wisconsin for two years and graduated summa The New Jersey Pavilion won several awards, Peskin is survived by his wife, Sandra Walther; cum laude in 1965. He then received a master’s including the Architectural Award for two daughters; a stepson; and six grandchildren. degree from Harvard in 1967, and a Ph.D. Excellence by the American Institute of Steel in chemistry from Princeton in 1972. Epiotis Construction and a Citation for Excellence Jan Miel *65 taught organic chemistry at the University in Design by the New York Chapter of the Jan Miel, professor emeritus of Romance of Washington from 1972 until he achieved American Institute of Architects. languages at Wesleyan University, died Oct. 6, emeritus status in 2008. Collins founded the architecture and 2015, after a long illness. He was 84. Alfred P. Sloan and Alexander von engineering firm, CUH2A, in Princeton. It Miel graduated from Harvard in 1952 Humboldt awards were among his honors. would grow into a large science and technology and served in the Army from 1952 to 1954. He wrote several books and numerous design firm, employing hundreds of architects He earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in papers in national and international scholarly and engineers in several international offices. Romance languages and literature in 1959 and journals. A theoretical scientist, his critically Collins is survived by his wife, Elinor 1965, respectively, from Princeton. He taught acclaimed book, Deciphering the Chemical Whitney Collins; four daughters; and six at Goucher College and MIT before joining Code, challenged the conventional theories of grandchildren. A son predeceased him. Wesleyan in 1964. chemical bonding. At Wesleyan, he was a professor of Romance Shortly after the book was published in 1996, Sherrill Cleland *57 languages and in the College of Letters. A Epiotis was diagnosed with the first of a series of Sherrill Cleland, former president of Marietta scholar of varied interests, Miel was a Sanskrit brain tumors that plagued him until his death. (Ohio) College, died Oct. 26, 2015, at age 91. major at Harvard, studied musicology at Epiotis is survived by his devoted wife, Cleland served in World War II and was Princeton, and then earned his doctorate in Linda Daniel; and an extended family in the decorated with a Bronze Star and a Purple French, also at Princeton. United States and Greece. Heart. In 1949, he earned a bachelor’s degree His main published work was Pascal and from Oberlin, and then a master’s degree and Theology, and he published many articles on Robert Curvin *75 Ph.D. from Princeton in economics. literature and literary criticism. While working Robert Curvin, a scholar and activist devoted to An accomplished economist and in intelligence in the Army, he wrote a grammar achieving racial equality and social justice, died professor, he was known for his commitment of the Sinhalese language. Sept. 29, 2015, of multiple myeloma. He was 81. to mentoring and promoting equal rights Miel is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a son; After Army service, Curvin graduated from and opportunities for women. A leader and and two grandchildren. A daughter died in 2010. Rutgers in Newark in 1960 and became a innovator in education, he was president welfare caseworker. He co-founded Newark’s of Marietta College from 1973 to 1989. He Aaron Sheon *66 chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality also had been dean of academic affairs at Aaron Sheon, professor emeritus of modern art (CORE). During the 1967 Newark turmoil, he Kalamazoo College. and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, worked to temper what he called a rebellion Through the Ford Foundation, he served as died Nov. 8, 2015, at age 78. and not a riot. In 1975 he earned a Ph.D. in an economic adviser to the country of Jordan Sheon graduated from the University of politics from Princeton. from 1963 to 1964. From 1967 to 1969, he led Michigan in 1960 with a bachelor’s and a In his 2014 book, Inside Newark: Decline, the creation of a master’s degree program master’s degree in art history. Then he earned Rebellion and the Search for Transformation, he in development economics at the American an MFA in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1966 in art from analyzed Newark’s tumultuous change after University of Beirut. He had been a board Princeton. In 1962, he received a Fulbright award World War II as it went from two-thirds white member of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal for research at the Sorbonne, and from 1963 to to two-thirds black within a decade. Hopeful Reserve Bank of Cleveland. In retirement, he 1965 he worked at the UNESCO office in Paris. but realistic about Newark’s future, Curvin was was chair of the Student Loan Funding Corp. In 1966, Sheon began his 37-year career as frank about his disappointment in the city’s Cleland is survived by Diana, his wife of 27 professor of modern art and architecture at the mayors, but believed in education. years; 10 children; 19 grandchildren; and 14 University of Pittsburgh. He retired in 2003 as In 1977, Curvin joined the editorial board great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by professor emeritus. He was an undergraduate of The New York Times and served for nearly Betty, his first wife of 39 years. adviser and curated several of the first six years. He then held senior positions at the exhibitions in that university’s art gallery. In Ford Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, Richard L. Peskin *60 1968 and from 1978 to 1979, he was chair of the New School, Fund for the City of New York, Richard Peskin, retired professor of Pittsburgh’s Frick fine arts department. and the Bloustein School at Rutgers. He was engineering at Rutgers University, died July 12, Between 1984 and 1985, he was the a trustee of Princeton University from 1977 to 2015, after a long illness. He was 81. Herodotus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced 1981 and a member of the ABPA. Peskin earned a bachelor’s degree from Studies in Princeton. Sheon received numerous He is survived by Patricia, his wife; two MIT in 1956, and in 1960 received a Ph.D. in awards for his teaching and scholarship. children; and three grandchildren. mechanical engineering from Princeton. He He curated and wrote catalogs for many was a faculty member in the mechanical and exhibitions of artists and architects. Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA. aerospace department at Rutgers for 38 years. He is survived by his wife, Jill; two children; He made many contributions in turbulence, two granddaughters; two stepsons; and one This issue contains an undergraduate non-linear dynamics, and chaos. Peskin step-granddaughter. memorial for John C. Eaton ’57 *59.

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